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crosspoint-reader-mod/lib/GfxRenderer
Xuan-Son Nguyen 6909f127b4 perf: optimize drawPixel() (#748)
## Summary

Ref https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737

This PR further reduce ~25ms from rendering time, testing inside the
Setting screen:

```
master:
[68440] [GFX] Time = 73 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer

PR:
[97806] [GFX] Time = 47 ms from clearScreen to displayBuffer
```

And in extreme case (fill the entire screen with black or gray color):

```
master:
[1125] [   ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 327 ms
[1347] [   ] Test fillRect drawn in 222 ms

PR:
[1334] [   ] Test fillRectDither drawn in 225 ms
[1455] [   ] Test fillRect drawn in 121 ms
```

Note that
https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/pull/737 is NOT
applied on top of this PR. But with 2 of them combined, it should reduce
from 47ms --> 42ms

## Details

This PR based on the fact that function calls are costly if the function
is small enough. For example, this simple call:

```
  int rotatedX = 0;
  int rotatedY = 0;
  rotateCoordinates(x, y, &rotatedX, &rotatedY);
```

Generated assembly code:

<img width="771" height="215" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/37991659-3304-41c3-a3b2-fb967da53f82"
/>

This adds ~10 instructions just to prepare the registers prior to the
function call, plus some more instructions for the function's
epilogue/prologue. Inlining it removing all of these:

<img width="1471" height="832" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b67a22ee-93ba-4017-88ed-c973e28ec914"
/>

Of course, this optimization is not magic. It's only beneficial under 3
conditions:
- The function is small, not in size, but in terms of effective
instructions. For example, the `rotateCoordinates` is simply a jump
table, where each branch is just 3-4 inst
- The function has multiple input arguments, which requires some move to
put it onto the correct place
- The function is called very frequently (i.e. critical path)

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2026-02-09 05:07:35 +11:00
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