Approximate FastLog between value range [256, 8192]
Profiled data: Profiled few images and found that in the function VP8LFastLog,
90% of time table lookup is performed, while rest of time (10%) call to log
function is made. Typical lookup accounts for 10 CPU instructions and call to
log 200 instruction counts. The weighted average comes out to be 30
instructions per call. For mid qualities (25-75), this function (VP8LFastLog)
accounts for 30-50% of total CPU cycles (via call path: VP8LCOlorSpaceTransform
-> PredictionCostCrossColor -> ShannonEntropy). After this change, the log is
called less that 1% of time, with average instructions being 15 per call.
Measured the performance over 1000 files for various qualities and found
overall compression speedup between 10-15% (in quality range [0, 75]). The
compression density loss is around 0.5% (though at some qualities, compression
is little better as well).
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