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License Definitions
By downloading and installing this product, you hereby agree that the accompanying materials are being provided to you under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement for the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) product previously accepted by you.
System Requirements
Recommended hardware:
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A system based on 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i3, i5, i7 or newer processor
Hardware requirements:
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A system based on Intel® Quark™ System-on-Chip processors;
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A system based on Intel® Pentium® processor, Intel® Xeon® processor, or subsequent IA-32 architecture based system;
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A system based on a processor with Intel® 64 architecture.
Software requirements:
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Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC) is required when using Microsoft Visual Studio.
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For the basic system requirements on operating system, Intel® IPP library, IDE and compiler, refer to the corresponding Release Notes document.
For more information please see Intel® IPP System Requirements.
Introduction
GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) is a popular library for image processing, encoding, and decoding. The patches provided with Intel IPP inject functions from the Intel® IPP library to C Magick API of GraphicsMagick to boost performance with minimal user efforts.
Following features are provided:
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2-4 times performance boost (depends on particular functionality and parameters)
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Build-time Intel® IPP switches for VisualMagick and autoconf builders (other builders are not supported)
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Run-time switch with API functions or environment variable
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Fall-back to the original code in case of Intel® IPP failure
Supported Functionality
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Results between GraphicsMagick and Intel® IPP may vary due to differences in approaches to internal calculations. Maximum pixel value variation should not exceed 1 for any function except Resize functions. Resize functions in GraphicsMagick and Intel® IPP have different implementations which can result in pixel variations bigger than 1. Most variations are localized around image border due to different border handling techniques. |
Here is the list of GraphicsMagick functions which have Intel® IPP integrations:
Magick API | Supported Qs | comments |
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ResizeImage |
8, 16 |
Some pixel values may differ from the reference implementation. Implemented for: PointFilter, TriangleFilter, HermiteFilter, CubicFilter, CatromFilter, MitchellFilter, LanczosFilter |
ScaleImage |
8, 16 |
Some pixel values may differ from the reference implementation. Implemented only for down-sampling |
GaussianBlurImage |
8, 16 |
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FlipImage |
8, 16, 32 |
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FlopImage |
8, 16, 32 |
Performance
Measuring performance of image processing is tricky because actual processing could be negligible compared to decoding and encoding steps.
For example, say we improved performance of Resize 10 times compared to the original code. If overall operation takes 1000ms and resize takes only 400ms of this time, then we will improve overall operation time from 1000ms to 640ms, which is ~1.5 times only.
To take the most from such accelerations it is wise to bulk them in a single pipeline avoiding intermediate coding and thus increasing weight of processing itself.
For example, decode→resize→blur→…→rotate→encode
Below you can find simple performance measurements taken with the gm utility on an abstract image:
CPU: i7-4771, 4 cores, IntelĀ® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (IntelĀ® AVX2)
> gm benchmark -iterations 100 convert -depth 8 -size 1920x1280 rgb:test.raw -resize 600x600 temp.raw
Q8, 1 thread | Q8, 4 threads | Q16, 1 thread | Q16, 4 threads | |
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GraphicsMagick |
14.0 iter/s |
38.6 iter/s |
12.2 iter/s |
31.3 iter/s |
Intel® IPP |
39.6 iter/s |
59.8 iter/s |
33.1 iter/s |
50.0 iter/s |
Speedup |
2.8 |
1.5 |
2.7 |
1.6 |
> gm benchmark -iterations 100 convert -depth 8 -size 1920x1280 rgb:test.raw -gaussian 2 temp.raw
Q8, 1 thread | Q8, 4 threads | Q16, 1 thread | Q16, 4 threads | |
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GraphicsMagick |
7.2 iter/s |
20.8 iter/s |
6.5 iter/s |
17.7 iter/s |
Intel® IPP |
33.8 iter/s |
38.2 iter/s |
20.9 iter/s |
23.6 iter/s |
Speedup |
4.7 |
1.8 |
3.2 |
1.3 |
History
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Patch for GraphicsMagick v1.3.26 was introduced
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Patch for GraphicsMagick v1.3.25 was introduced
How to Build GraphicsMagick with Intel® IPP Library
This section provides instructions on how to prepare the GraphicsMagick source code and build the library.
Prerequisites
We provide patches for specific versions if GraphicsMagick listed under OS instructions below. Other versions may be or may not be compatible with these patches, we do not support them in this version of Intel® IPP.
To use the patch you need to get the GraphicsMagick sources. Please refer to http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ to find source package for the corresponding patch version if links below become deprecated.
Make sure that the IPPROOT environment variable is set up correctly to the root folder of the Intel® IPP package with include and lib folders. E.g.:
$ export IPPROOT=<composer_loc>/ipp
For Windows* build you need:
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7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) or other compatible archive tool to extract GraphicsMagick sources
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GNU patch tool (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm also available in Cygwin or MinGW)
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The patch file for Windows* is different from the patch file for Linux* OS and macOS*. Intel® IPP distributions for each OS contain only patch file for GraphicsMagick source package for the corresponding OS. |
For information and requirements on how to build GraphicsMagick please refer to the original instructions.
Downloading, Patching and Building on Linux* and macOS*
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Download sources of GraphicsMagick <version>
Version Link 1.3.25
1.3.26
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Unpack the archive with the following command on Linux*/macOS* systems:
$ tar xvf <archive file name>
This command will unpack GraphicsMagick into your working directory.
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Change directory to the unpacked sources folder (with README.txt file).
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Apply the source code patch file gm-<version>.patch from the Intel® IPP product distribution with the following command:
$ patch -p1 -i <path to the patch file>
If the patching process completed successfully, you will see multiple messages like this:
patching file <file name>
Otherwise, make sure that you are using the original untainted sources package.
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Now you can follow the standard GraphicsMagick build procedure.
Intel® IPP is enabled by default if the IPPROOT path is correct. To disable Intel® IPP, use the following command:
$ ./configure --without-ipp
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If you are building static GraphicsMagick libraries, you will need to include the following Intel® IPP libraries to any application with which you want to use the enabled libraries:
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Downloading, Patching, and Building on Windows*
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Download sources of GraphicsMagick <version>
Version Link 1.3.25
1.3.26
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Unpack the archive with 7-zip compatible archive tool.
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Change directory to the unpacked sources folder (with README.txt file).
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Apply the source code patch file gm-<version>.patch from the Intel® IPP product distribution with the following command:
> patch -p1 -i <patch file location>
If the patching process completed successfully, you will see multiple messages like this:
patching file <file name>
Otherwise, make sure that you are using original untainted sources package.
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Before building GraphicsMagick you need to rebuild the VisualMagick configuration tool:
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Go to the <patched_folder>\VisualMagick\configure folder
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Open Visual Studio solution and build the project
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Now you can follow the standard GraphicsMagick build procedure and run configure.exe.
Use new checkbox in configurator to enable or disable Intel® IPP
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If you are building static GraphicsMagick libraries, you need to include the following Intel® IPP libraries to any application with which you want to use the enabled libraries:
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Checking GraphicsMagick build
To verify that GraphicsMagick was built with Intel® IPP, you can run the standard gm utility:
> ./gm version GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 2017-07-04 Q8 http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Built with Intel(R) IPP v2018.0.2 Copyright (C) 2002-2017 GraphicsMagick Group. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software. See http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/www/Copyright.html for details. Feature Support: ... Intel(R) IPP yes (ippIP AVX2 (l9) 2018.0.2 (r57645)) ...
Verify that resize function works with the -resize command:
> set MAGICK_IPP= > gm benchmark -iterations 100 convert ..\..\images\gm-282x180t.png -resize !800x800 gm_ipp.jpg Results: 4 threads 100 iter 5.27s user 1.52s total 65.963 iter/s 18.991 iter/cpu > set MAGICK_IPP=disabled > gm benchmark -iterations 100 convert ..\..\images\gm-282x180t.png -resize !800x800 gm_orig.jpg Results: 4 threads 100 iter 8.39s user 2.30s total 43.535 iter/s 11.918 iter/cpu
New functionality introduced by Intel® IPP patch
MAGICK_IPP environment variable
This variable controls Intel® IPP initialization process. If variable was not set or empty or has invalid value then Intel® IPP will use all available optimizations. To check initialization status use ./gm version command. Actual optimization will be reflected in Intel® IPP entry under Feature Support.
Supported values (case insensitive, other values will be ignored):
Value | Description |
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disabled |
Disable Intel® IPP optimizations |
SSE2 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (Intel® SSE2) |
SSE3 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (Intel® SSE3) |
SSSE3 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3) |
SSE41 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1 (Intel® SSE4.1) |
SSE42 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 (Intel® SSE4.2) |
AVX |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) |
AVX2 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2) |
AVX512 |
Limit Intel® IPP optimizations to Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) |
ippEnabled Function
Syntax:
MagickExport int ippEnabled();
Description:
This function returns the Intel® IPP enabled flag.
Return Values:
Value | Description |
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0 |
Intel® IPP is disabled |
1 |
Intel® IPP is enabled |
ippSetEnabled Function
Syntax:
MagickExport void ippSetEnabled(int flag);
Description:
This function enables or disables Intel® IPP.
Parameters:
Value | Description |
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0 |
Disables Intel® IPP |
1 |
Enables Intel® IPP |
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If your distributor provides technical support for this product, please contact them rather than Intel. |
For technical information about the Intel® IPP library, including FAQ’s, tips and tricks, and other support information, please visit the Intel® IPP forum: (http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-integrated-performance-primitives) and browse the Intel® IPP support page: https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-ipp-support/.