[Gegl-developer] Use of Static Arrays in Nohalo Level 2

[Øyvind Kolås]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Adam Turcotte<adam.turcotte at gmail.com> wrote:
> I will be implementing Nohalo Level 2 for GEGL. This basically
> involves computing double-density pixel data (with a specialized
> version of Nohalo Level 1 minus the finishing bilinear) and then
> running a slightly modified version of Nohalo Level 1. The simplest
> way of implementing this is by having a small "persistent" array or
> buffer storing double-density pixel data locally so that the required
> values from Level 1 are not recomputed over and over.
>
> I originally thought that I could simply use GeglBuffers for this
> purpose, but the GeglBuffer code seems fairly complicated. Instead, I
> believe that small static arrays could be a better choice. For
> example, a 64x64 double-density data array can be computed with the
> buffer data corresponding to a context_rect/fetch_rectangle of size
> 35x35. When the currently stored static array does not contain the
> Level 1 data needed to compute the Level 2 value at the current
> location, it would simply be recomputed, much like they are in
> gegl_sampler_get_ptr (in gegl-sampler.c).

It sounds like a reasonable approach it might be better if this buffer
is allocated on the heap and allocated/freed by the sampler.

/Øyvind K.
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