joeylib2/PERF.md

JoeyLib cross-port performance (UBER benchmark)

Regenerated 2026-07-05 (PERF-AUDIT-PLAN.md Phase 8, #25b) from same-day captures of all four ports. This supersedes the 2026-07-04 Phase 0 baseline; every phase of the audit fix plan (0-8) has landed, so these are the numbers the library actually ships with.

2026-07-06 update: the IIgs sprite column is now COMPILED. Finding #77 (the loader/segment-BSS + malloc-heap reservation that forced the codegen arena into the app's own BSS) was fixed toolchain-side and JOEY_IIGS_SPRITE_CODEGEN was re-enabled; the four IIgs sprite rows were re-captured (bench-iigs.sh) and jumped 5-25x (SaveUnder 104->543, Draw 48->907, RestoreUnder 110->568, SaveAndDraw 15->376 ops/sec), bit-identical to the interpreter goldens (diff-uber-hashes 45/45). The ST and DOS columns are unchanged from the 2026-07-05 capture.

Also 2026-07-06: the Amiga jlpFillRect partial-width path was moved onto the blitter (BLTAFWM/BLTALWM hardware edge masks + masked minterm), which lifted jlFillRect 16x16 567->1153, 80x80 71->269 (both from below-floor to well above it), and -- because they build on fillRect -- jlDrawLine V 144->269 and jlDrawRect 100x100 122->203, all hash-identical (Amiga 45/45). The one remaining Amiga below-floor cell is jlFillCircle r=40 (74%); a whole-circle asm routine was tried and did NOT help (per-span dispatch is not the cost -- the 8-way-symmetry overlap fill dominates), so it stays on the C span walker for now.

2026-07-06, NATIVE-PERF Phase 0: four WORKLOAD rows were added (see NATIVE-PERF-PLAN.md) and the goldens refrozen at 49 lines after a clean regression gate (45 match + exactly 4 extras per port) and full 4-port cross-identity. The new rows measure what games actually do, and they expose the real problem the per-op rows hid: jlSpriteDraw unaligned runs at 5% (ST) / 9% (Amiga) of the IIgs floor -- a 15x/12x cliff vs the aligned row, because only x%8==0 draws are compiled on the 68k ports (see the plan's code-truth table). The gameFrame composite row is the bottom line: ST 9 / Amiga 18 / IIgs 10 / DOS 18 frames/sec for a modest game frame. Bonus finding: cross-identity of the sweep16 row validated the ST/Amiga shifted c2p walkers as pixel-perfect at all 14 previously-untested x phases. (Re-capture note: IIgs input/audio rows wobbled vs the prior MAME run -- e.g. jlAudioFrameTick 50223 -> 27612 -- run-to-run MAME variance on cheap ops; hashes are unaffected and those rows gate nothing.)

Correctness statement backing this table: all four ports produce BYTE-IDENTICAL pixels on every measured op and every correctness check -- 49/49 surface hashes match the frozen goldens in tests/goldens/uber/ (37 timed ops + 12 hashed checks; the PASS/FAIL checks -- palette round-trip, PRNG golden sequence, sprite clip round-trip, arena churn, sprite-from-surface -- pass everywhere). The Phase 0-era divergences (#75 tilePasteMono three-way, #78 ST fillCircle/tileFill, #87 IIgs circle outline) are all fixed.

Measurement honesty (read before trusting any number)

Three clock artifacts have shaped this table's history. Two are fixed, one is inherent -- know them before comparing rows:

1. Per-iteration poll tax -- FIXED (Phase 0). The pre-audit bench loop called jlFrameCount() between every op; on the IIgs that was a GetTick toolbox chain (~600-800 cycles), so every small-op number carried the harness cost, not the op cost. Ops now run in adaptive batches per poll. Small-op numbers jumped 2-10x on every port when this landed; never compare against pre-Phase-0 captures.
2. SEI tick loss -- INHERENT on IIgs, rows tagged below. The benchmark clock is jlFrameCount = the VBL-interrupt-driven GetTick. An op that holds SEI while it runs suppresses those interrupts, the clock loses ticks, and the op over-reports. The three SEI-holding rows -- jlSurfaceClear, jlFillRect 320x200, and jlStagePresent full -- are CLOCK-UNRELIABLE in the IIgs column. The physics check: a full-screen op moves 32000 bytes at ~6 cyc/word, so ~29 ops/sec is the hard ceiling at 2.8 MHz. The present row's 68 and the clear row's 35 sit above it -- inflated; the honest values are at or below the ceiling.
3. ST frame-rate miscalibration -- FOUND and FIXED 2026-07-06; the ST column below is the corrected (millis-clock) capture. Before the fix, ops/sec was iters * jlFrameHz() / actualFrames and the ST's jlpFrameHz() hardcoded 50 -- but Hatari runs the emulated ST at ~60 Hz VBL, so every ST number was scaled by 50/60 ~= 0.83 (~17% pessimistic). Caught by cross-checking against UBER's independent Timer-C 200 Hz millis clock (refresh-independent), which ran ~16-22% faster; the Amiga's two clocks agreed exactly (FS-UAE = PAL 50 Hz), confirming it was ST-only. Two fixes landed: (a) UBER now computes ops/sec from jlMillisElapsed (refresh-independent on all four ports; identical to the old formula on IIgs where millis is GetTick-derived), and (b) ST jlpFrameHz() now reads the shifter resolution + sync-mode registers to return the true 50/60/71 Hz. The per-op UBER-CLK: log line reports frame-vs-millis as a standing cross-check (they now agree). ST cells rose ~17% (e.g. jlSpriteDraw 503->585, jlFillRect 80x80 97->115); DOS/IIgs/Amiga unchanged.

Baseline (2026-07-05): absolute ops/sec per port

The IIgs is the reference and the perf floor (every other port must meet or beat it -- project directive). Non-IIgs cells show absolute ops/sec plus percentage of the IIgs number; sub-100% cells are bolded as below-floor. tools/uber-perf-table emits this table directly; regenerate after any re-capture (Amiga needs TIMEOUT=600 -- the default cuts off the final checks).

Op	IIgs (ops/sec)	Amiga (ops/sec, % of IIGS)	Atari ST (ops/sec, % of IIGS)	DOS (ops/sec, % of IIGS)
jlSurfaceClear	33	75 (227%)	44 (133%)	66 (200%)
jlPaletteSet	1561	11503 (737%)	5256 (337%)	29809 (1910%)
jlScbSetRange	163	3953 (2425%)	2418 (1483%)	8495 (5212%)
jlDrawPixel	3179	5853 (184%)	3384 (106%)	23757 (747%)
jlDrawLine H	1142	1703 (149%)	1341 (117%)	5708 (500%)
jlDrawLine V	99	269 (272%)	132 (133%)	470 (475%)
jlDrawLine diag	42	40 (95%)	43 (102%)	109 (260%)
jlDrawRect 100x100	89	203 (228%)	108 (121%)	377 (424%)
jlDrawCircle r=16	303	285 (94%)	184 (61%)	449 (148%)
jlDrawCircle r=80	70	63 (90%)	42 (60%)	98 (140%)
jlFillRect 16x16	605	1153 (191%)	610 (101%)	3013 (498%)
jlFillRect 80x80	110	269 (245%)	120 (109%)	414 (376%)
jlFillRect 320x200	21	66 (314%)	40 (190%)	58 (276%)
jlFillCircle r=40	42	31 (74%)	77 (183%)	156 (371%)
jlSamplePixel	4815	7253 (151%)	4862 (101%)	46397 (964%)
jlTileFill	1981	2303 (116%)	1603 (81%)	9313 (470%)
jlTileCopy	1441	1853 (129%)	1341 (93%)	8764 (608%)
jlTileCopyMasked	623	953 (153%)	689 (111%)	3147 (505%)
jlTilePaste	1741	2303 (132%)	1574 (90%)	9806 (563%)
jlTileSnap	2520	3503 (139%)	2907 (115%)	19247 (764%)
jlSpriteSaveUnder	545	567 (104%)	849 (156%)	9229 (1693%)
jlSpriteDraw	902	953 (106%)	607 (67%)	6218 (689%)
jlSpriteRestoreUnder	566	553 (98%)	689 (122%)	5933 (1048%)
jlSpriteSaveAndDraw	376	332 (88%)	328 (87%)	4271 (1136%)
jlStagePresent full	67	359 (536%)	55 (82%)	360 (537%)
jlInputPoll	229	4003 (1748%)	1400 (611%)	3134 (1369%)
jlKeyDown	10191	39753 (390%)	22403 (220%)	77800 (763%)
jlKeyPressed	11432	38003 (332%)	22344 (195%)	74977 (656%)
jlMouseX	20138	97703 (485%)	58314 (290%)	155140 (770%)
joeyJoyConnected	10191	38903 (382%)	21870 (215%)	77819 (764%)
jlAudioFrameTick	27612	56453 (204%)	11732 (42%)	59162 (214%)
jlAudioIsPlayingMod	11029	56503 (512%)	29870 (271%)	127794 (1159%)
surfaceMarkDirtyRect (via jlFillRect 32x32)	323	853 (264%)	389 (120%)	1478 (458%)
jlSpriteDraw unaligned	842	75 (9%)	40 (5%)	5115 (607%)
jlSpriteDraw sweep16	56	5 (9%)	2 (4%)	353 (630%)
jlTilePaste map 10x5	35	46 (131%)	32 (91%)	200 (571%)
gameFrame composite	10	18 (180%)	9 (90%)	18 (180%)

IIgs full-screen ceiling (~29 ops/sec). A full-screen op moves 32000 bytes = 16000 word-stores x 6 cyc (STA long,X / PEI, both 3 cyc/byte) / 2.8 MHz ~= 34 ms ~= 29 ops/sec maximum. So jlSurfaceClear, jlFillRect 320x200, and jlStagePresent full cannot legitimately exceed ~29; a higher reading means the benchmark clock was perturbed. The clock is jlFrameCount = the VBL-interrupt- driven GetTick, so an op that holds SEI while it runs can over- report its ops/sec. Treat full-screen IIgs numbers above ~29 as inflated and cross-check against the cycle model.

Reading notes

• Sprite rows measure different code per port. DOS runs COMPILED sprites (finding #74 fixed 2026-07-05). Amiga/ST run their interpreted planar paths (compiled save/restore emitters are stubs by design, Phase 4 #27). The IIgs now runs COMPILED sprites too (finding #77 fixed 2026-07-06; JOEY_IIGS_SPRITE_CODEGEN back on) -- the IIgs sprite rows jumped 5-25x and the huge non-IIgs ratios on these rows collapsed accordingly, which re-exposes a real 68k sprite gap (see below).
• The below-floor cells are the standing punch list (ST column corrected +17% by the 2026-07-06 clock fix, artifact #3 above -- many ST cells crossed above the floor; what remains is genuinely below). ST circles (57-58%) are the worst honest graphics gap -- pure-68000 constraint, no blitter allowed (STF baseline). The IIgs circle-outline case is a known structural loss (3-register 65816 vs 16-register 68000 Bresenham; see feedback memory). With IIgs sprites now compiled, a 68k sprite gap re-opened: ST jlSpriteDraw 67%, ST jlSpriteSaveAndDraw 87%, ST jlTileFill 77%, and Amiga jlSpriteRestoreUnder 97% + jlSpriteSaveAndDraw 88% remain below the IIgs floor (they were masked while the IIgs interpreted; ST jlSpriteRestoreUnder is now 119%, above floor, after the clock fix). A 2026-07-06 shared fix -- inlining the per-row widen in surfaceMarkDirtyRows (removing an 8x function call in every multi-row stage op's dirty mark) -- lifted all ST multi-row ops ~2-5% (tileFill 1516->1574, spriteDraw 585->607, tileCopy 1307->1366, fillRect16 to 100%), the ST/Amiga counterpart to the IIgs asm marker. The ST jlSpriteDraw case was investigated 2026-07-06 and is ARCHITECTURAL, the same root as the ST circle gap: DRAW is already compiled (JIT, shifts 0/1), but the word-interleaved planar layout forces move.b #imm,(d16,An) (~18 cyc) per plane byte, which loses in wall-time to the IIgs chunky sta (~5 cyc @ 2.8 MHz) -- ST actually BEATS the IIgs on the block-copy SAVE (833 vs 543) and only trails on the c2p+mask DRAW. The one real DRAW win (merge the two tile columns into one move.w per plane word) exists only at shift 0; the UBER benchmark draws at x=40 = shift 1, where the columns fall in different interleaved groups, so it is byte-bound and the metric cannot move. jlSpriteSaveAndDraw (85%) is save+draw and is dominated by that same DRAW (SAVE is already fast). ST jlAudioFrameTick at 23% is the YM mixer cost, tracked separately. Amiga jlFillCircle r=40 (74%) was probed 2026-07-06 with a full whole-circle asm routine (Bresenham + inline 4-plane long-fill span): it held 45/45 hashes but did NOT move the number (34 vs 31, within the coarse 11-iter sample), so the per-span C dispatch is NOT the bottleneck -- the asm was reverted. The real cost is the midpoint fill's 8-way symmetry filling each row 2-4x (idempotent overlap): the true lever is a scanline rewrite (one span per row, no overlap), which would roughly halve the byte writes and stay hash-identical. NB: this op is timed at batch=1 (~29 ms each) by the 50 Hz frame counter, a coarse measurement -- the same ~4-5x model-vs-measured gap shows on ST sprite-draw, so part of these two cells may be measurement, not silicon.
• jlRandom has no timed row. Phase 8 (#43) rewrote its xorshift32 update in 16-bit halves on the IIgs only (~2-3x fewer cycles per call on the 65816; 32-bit shifts there are per-bit helper loops). Output is bit-identical -- host-proven over the golden sequence and a 50M-state sweep, and gated by UBER's random-golden check on all four ports.
• Input predicates stay functions (Phase 8 #40 decision): the post-clock-fix numbers (12K-77K ops/sec) put call overhead nowhere near a real frame budget; macro forms in the public header were rejected as not worth the API exposure.
• IIgs libc memset/memcpy remain ~4x slow (finding #79, toolchain-owned): llvm-mos runtime byte loops vs ORCA's MVN. The jlScbSetRange and jlPaletteSet IIgs rows carry that tax; library-side mitigations landed (#16 unrolled word copy, #21), the libc fix is flagged to the llvm816 session.

History

Pre-2026-07-04 tables (ORCA-era IIgs column, artifact-inflated DOS numbers, un-batched loops) live in git history only -- every conclusion drawn from them was re-derived from Phase 0 onward. The Phase 0 baseline (2026-07-04) and per-phase deltas are recorded in PERF-AUDIT-PLAN.md's progress tracker; headline gains since Phase 0: IIgs interpreted spriteDraw 18 -> 48 ops/sec (Phase 4), IIgs tilePasteMono asm 3.35x (Phase 7 #3), ST flood plane hooks 5.6x (Phase 7 #4), DOS paletteSet +92% / tileSnap +42% (Phases 2/5), DOS compiled sprites 284 -> ~6100 ops/sec (#74).