Backlog of Qt and QtWebKit problems

Qt problems

Description	Branch	Landed in	Landed Date
ARM optimized qdrawhelper is only enabled for RCVT (symbian) . The needs to be transferred to gcc inline assembly. This will optimize memfill, Source, SourceOver and some blend functions.
ARMv6 should be auto detected. Currently arm/armv6 can be passed as -embedded options. The benefit of ARMv6 in src/corelib is the use of atomic load and exchange, instead of the old "swap" extension. __ARCH_ARM_6__ should be used to detect it.
Enabled pld (preload) in qdrawhelper for ARMv5te and upwards
Optimize scrolling of Windowsurfaces. Either optimize memcpy/memmove or consider using a tile based window surface
QImageReader deserves some optimatations. E.g. decode to the QImage provided to the decoder, do not parse every gif when trying to determine the size.	​image-changes
Cut down on usage of QImage::scanLine inside Qt. This was already done in the GIF and PNG decoder.	​image-changes
Make QGifHandler::imageCount scan through the images. This can give a 5% speedup in the image_cycling reduction.
Make picking a QImageIOHandler in QImageReader faster. Currently even the TIFF plugin is asked to handle images.
Consider creating a tile based QImage to allocate image chunks from an image pool with fixed size images
Bring zero-copy to QIODevice... big one. That is good for networking and image decoding.
Consider creating a SharedBuffer that works on tiles/segments
Changes to QHttpNetworkReply to reduce memory reallocations. Reserve some bytes instead of doing QByteArray::append all them time.
Changes to QNetworkReply to remove quadratic runtime in QNetworkReplyHandler and latency fixes	​network-changes
Cut down on the usage of QUrl::toEncoded as it shows up in the profile of starting jobs.
QBENCHMARK results are hard to analyze and compare. We need a single and simple way to say if something is faster or slower. Be a bit like sunpsider, do the same math as well, mention slowest and fastest run.

QtWebKit problems

Bug	Description	Commit	Date
Loading of ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_equations is triggering bad "scheduling". The loading_standalone test has been extracted but is not able to highlight the problem. This is a Qt and QtWebKit issue, it must be understood first.
TCmalloc needs to be tested. Does it make anything faster/slower? How to test memory fragmentation.
The fuzz testing will make QtWebKit go in infinite loops and stop working. This situation needs to be analyzed as this can be a serve reliabality problem.
​#30211	Research a better QImage -> QPixmap migration strategy. Currently we convert every QImage to a QPixmap and this is bad for times where we need to draw a scaled version of the image or will only draw this image once.
​#30293	Loading speed regressed due image changes?
​#30301	Loading bug/API bug on loading amazon in QtEmbedded Linux. Loading does not complete.
​#29279	Decode images to RGB16 or smaller (instead of RGB32) to conserve memory. The patch introduces new API to Qt.
Go through the Palm changes and consider adopting them. Currently candidates are: Use stack/class memory in CSSParser, use JDCT_Fast for Jpeg decoding (to be achieved with QImageReader to set quality to 49), changes to Cached* to throw away encoded data more early. Palm avoids floating point operation on premultiplied alpha in setRGBA.
​#30740	Using QImageReader::setQuality(49) will use JDCT_IFAST and promises to give a 5% speedup on image_cycling.
​#30210	Create Embedded profile that will tune for embedded usage. This can mean to save memory in favor of speed, add a speed gain by avoiding certain operations, trading image quality for speed
Change CursorQt.cpp to not create QPixmap's right away but only on first load. This will be a minor memory improvement.
​#27538	Image decoder changes needs to be measured. Do they make anything faster/slower? Do they consume more or less memory?	​49179 ​49180 ​49181 ​49182 ​49183 ​49185 ​49186 ​49559	6.10.2009-14.10.2009

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