JoinIdenticalVertices: Performance optimizations by Krishty („Fuck the System”). Yields a 9x speedup in first benchmarks with meshes > 2k triangles.

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aramis_acg 2010-07-11 23:07:11 +00:00
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4 changed files with 160 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -127,10 +127,12 @@ int JoinVerticesProcess::ProcessMesh( aiMesh* pMesh, unsigned int meshIndex)
std::vector<Vertex> uniqueVertices;
uniqueVertices.reserve( pMesh->mNumVertices);
// For each vertex the index of the vertex it was replaced by.
// For each vertex the index of the vertex it was replaced by.
// Since the maximal number of vertices is 2^31-1, the most significand bit can be used to mark
// whether a new vertex was created for the index (true) or if it was replaced by an existing
// unique vertex (false). This saves an additional std::vector<bool> and greatly enhances
// branching performance.
std::vector<unsigned int> replaceIndex( pMesh->mNumVertices, 0xffffffff);
// for each vertex whether it was replaced by an existing unique vertex (true) or a new vertex was created for it (false)
std::vector<bool> isVertexUnique( pMesh->mNumVertices, false);
// A little helper to find locally close vertices faster.
// Try to reuse the lookup table from the last step.
@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ int JoinVerticesProcess::ProcessMesh( aiMesh* pMesh, unsigned int meshIndex)
Vertex v(pMesh,a);
// collect all vertices that are close enough to the given position
vertexFinder->FindPositions( v.position, posEpsilonSqr, verticesFound);
vertexFinder->FindIdenticalPositions( v.position, verticesFound);
unsigned int matchIndex = 0xffffffff;
// check all unique vertices close to the position if this vertex is already present among them
@ -188,9 +190,8 @@ int JoinVerticesProcess::ProcessMesh( aiMesh* pMesh, unsigned int meshIndex)
const unsigned int vidx = verticesFound[b];
const unsigned int uidx = replaceIndex[ vidx];
if( uidx == 0xffffffff || !isVertexUnique[ vidx]) {
if( uidx & 0x80000000)
continue;
}
const Vertex& uv = uniqueVertices[ uidx];
// Position mismatch is impossible - the vertex finder already discarded all non-matching positions
@ -239,15 +240,13 @@ int JoinVerticesProcess::ProcessMesh( aiMesh* pMesh, unsigned int meshIndex)
if( matchIndex != 0xffffffff)
{
// store where to found the matching unique vertex
replaceIndex[a] = matchIndex;
isVertexUnique[a] = false;
replaceIndex[a] = matchIndex | 0x80000000;
}
else
{
// no unique vertex matches it upto now -> so add it
replaceIndex[a] = (unsigned int)uniqueVertices.size();
uniqueVertices.push_back( v);
isVertexUnique[a] = true;
}
}
@ -331,7 +330,7 @@ int JoinVerticesProcess::ProcessMesh( aiMesh* pMesh, unsigned int meshIndex)
{
aiFace& face = pMesh->mFaces[a];
for( unsigned int b = 0; b < face.mNumIndices; b++) {
face.mIndices[b] = replaceIndex[face.mIndices[b]];
face.mIndices[b] = replaceIndex[face.mIndices[b]] & ~0x80000000;
}
}
@ -346,7 +345,7 @@ int JoinVerticesProcess::ProcessMesh( aiMesh* pMesh, unsigned int meshIndex)
{
const aiVertexWeight& ow = bone->mWeights[b];
// if the vertex is a unique one, translate it
if( isVertexUnique[ow.mVertexId])
if( !(replaceIndex[ow.mVertexId] & 0x80000000))
{
aiVertexWeight nw;
nw.mVertexId = replaceIndex[ow.mVertexId];

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@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
using namespace Assimp;
// CHAR_BIT seems to be defined under MVSC, but not under GCC. Pray that the correct value is 8.
#ifndef CHAR_BIT
# define CHAR_BIT 8
#endif
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Constructs a spatially sorted representation from the given position array.
SpatialSort::SpatialSort( const aiVector3D* pPositions, unsigned int pNumPositions,
@ -168,6 +173,140 @@ void SpatialSort::FindPositions( const aiVector3D& pPosition,
// that's it
}
namespace {
// Binary, signed-integer representation of a single-precision floating-point value.
// IEEE 754 says: "If two floating-point numbers in the same format are ordered then they are
// ordered the same way when their bits are reinterpreted as sign-magnitude integers."
// This allows us to convert all floating-point numbers to signed integers of arbitrary size
// and then use them to work with ULPs (Units in the Last Place, for high-precision
// computations) or to compare them (integer comparisons are faster than floating-point
// comparisons on many platforms).
typedef signed int BinFloat;
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Converts the bit pattern of a floating-point number to its signed integer representation.
BinFloat ToBinary( const float & pValue) {
// If this assertion fails, signed int is not big enough to store a float on your platform.
// Please correct the declaration of BinFloat a few lines above - but do it in a portable,
// #ifdef'd manner!
BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT( sizeof(BinFloat) >= sizeof(float));
#if defined( _MSC_VER)
// If this assertion fails, Visual C++ has finally moved to ILP64. This means that this
// code has just become legacy code! Find out the current value of _MSC_VER and modify
// the #if above so it evaluates false on the current and all upcoming VC versions (or
// on the current platform, if LP64 or LLP64 are still used on other platforms).
BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT( sizeof(BinFloat) == sizeof(float));
// This works best on Visual C++, but other compilers have their problems with it.
const BinFloat binValue = reinterpret_cast<BinFloat const &>(pValue);
#else
// On many compilers, reinterpreting a float address as an integer causes aliasing
// problems. This is an ugly but more or less safe way of doing it.
union {
float asFloat;
BinFloat asBin;
} conversion;
conversion.asBin = 0; // zero empty space in case sizeof(BinFloat) > sizeof(float)
conversion.asFloat = pValue;
const BinFloat binValue = conversion.asBin;
#endif
// floating-point numbers are of sign-magnitude format, so find out what signed number
// representation we must convert negative values to.
// See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_number_representations.
// Two's complement?
if( (-42 == (~42 + 1)) && (binValue & 0x80000000))
return BinFloat(1 << (CHAR_BIT * sizeof(BinFloat) - 1)) - binValue;
// One's complement?
else if( (-42 == ~42) && (binValue & 0x80000000))
return BinFloat(-0) - binValue;
// Sign-magnitude?
else if( (-42 == (42 | (-0))) && (binValue & 0x80000000)) // -0 = 1000... binary
return binValue;
else
return binValue;
}
} // namespace
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Fills an array with indices of all positions indentical to the given position. In opposite to
// FindPositions(), not an epsilon is used but a (very low) tolerance of four floating-point units.
void SpatialSort::FindIdenticalPositions( const aiVector3D& pPosition,
std::vector<unsigned int>& poResults) const
{
// Epsilons have a huge disadvantage: they are of constant precision, while floating-point
// values are of log2 precision. If you apply e=0.01 to 100, the epsilon is rather small, but
// if you apply it to 0.001, it is enormous.
// The best way to overcome this is the unit in the last place (ULP). A precision of 2 ULPs
// tells us that a float does not differ more than 2 bits from the "real" value. ULPs are of
// logarithmic precision - around 1, they are 1÷(2^24) and around 10000, they are 0.00125.
// For standard C math, we can assume a precision of 0.5 ULPs according to IEEE 754. The
// incoming vertex positions might have already been transformed, probably using rather
// inaccurate SSE instructions, so we assume a tolerance of 4 ULPs to safely identify
// identical vertex positions.
static const int toleranceInULPs = 4;
// An interesting point is that the inaccuracy grows linear with the number of operations:
// multiplying to numbers, each inaccurate to four ULPs, results in an inaccuracy of four ULPs
// plus 0.5 ULPs for the multiplication.
// To compute the distance to the plane, a dot product is needed - that is a multiplication and
// an addition on each number.
static const int distanceToleranceInULPs = toleranceInULPs + 1;
// The squared distance between two 3D vectors is computed the same way, but with an additional
// subtraction.
static const int distance3DToleranceInULPs = distanceToleranceInULPs + 1;
// Convert the plane distance to its signed integer representation so the ULPs tolerance can be
// applied. For some reason, VC won't optimize two calls of the bit pattern conversion.
const BinFloat minDistBinary = ToBinary( pPosition * mPlaneNormal) - distanceToleranceInULPs;
const BinFloat maxDistBinary = minDistBinary + 2 * distanceToleranceInULPs;
// clear the array in this strange fashion because a simple clear() would also deallocate
// the array which we want to avoid
poResults.erase( poResults.begin(), poResults.end());
// do a binary search for the minimal distance to start the iteration there
unsigned int index = (unsigned int)mPositions.size() / 2;
unsigned int binaryStepSize = (unsigned int)mPositions.size() / 4;
while( binaryStepSize > 1)
{
// Ugly, but conditional jumps are faster with integers than with floats
if( minDistBinary > ToBinary(mPositions[index].mDistance))
index += binaryStepSize;
else
index -= binaryStepSize;
binaryStepSize /= 2;
}
// depending on the direction of the last step we need to single step a bit back or forth
// to find the actual beginning element of the range
while( index > 0 && minDistBinary < ToBinary(mPositions[index].mDistance) )
index--;
while( index < (mPositions.size() - 1) && minDistBinary > ToBinary(mPositions[index].mDistance))
index++;
// Now start iterating from there until the first position lays outside of the distance range.
// Add all positions inside the distance range within the tolerance to the result aray
std::vector<Entry>::const_iterator it = mPositions.begin() + index;
while( ToBinary(it->mDistance) < maxDistBinary)
{
if( distance3DToleranceInULPs >= ToBinary((it->mPosition - pPosition).SquareLength()))
poResults.push_back(it->mIndex);
++it;
if( it == mPositions.end())
break;
}
// that's it
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
unsigned int SpatialSort::GenerateMappingTable(std::vector<unsigned int>& fill,float pRadius) const
{

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@ -120,6 +120,15 @@ public:
void FindPositions( const aiVector3D& pPosition, float pRadius,
std::vector<unsigned int>& poResults) const;
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/** Fills an array with indices of all positions indentical to the given position. In
* opposite to FindPositions(), not an epsilon is used but a (very low) tolerance of
* four floating-point units.
* @param pPosition The position to look for vertices.
* @param poResults The container to store the indices of the found positions.
* Will be emptied by the call so it may contain anything.*/
void FindIdenticalPositions( const aiVector3D& pPosition,
std::vector<unsigned int>& poResults) const;
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/** Compute a table that maps each vertex ID referring to a spatially close

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@ -381,6 +381,7 @@
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