[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 235002] readPixels directly to ArrayBuffer has very high CPU usage

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235002

Kimmo Kinnunen <kkinnunen at apple.com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |kpiddington at apple.com
             Blocks|                            |223434

--- Comment #3 from Kimmo Kinnunen <kkinnunen at apple.com> ---
Thanks for the detailed analysis!

Yes, the readPixels is reading the underlying Metal texture row-by-row.
The underlying reason is that the general case of readPixels has a lot of edge-cases.
Also the general implementation has a memory-speed tradeoff characteristic for the simple implementation.

The ANGLE Metal backend does not have any special cases for the simpler cases that could be more optimal.

Other ANGLE backends seem to mostly use the buffer approach. I think it would make sense for consistency towards the pack buffer implementation that the non-pack buffer implementation would have similar perf characteristics.

The readPixels is a known slow operation and naturally recommendation is that the data would be processed with a shader. Are you working around some other WebKit issue with readPixels or is it just that readPixels should really be faster? E.g. when considering what to fix, would you benefit some other feature working better or just that readPixels would be faster?


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223434
[Bug 223434] WebGL2 performance problem test cases
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