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* perf(seam): drop the original-column map from the shrink proxy, same pixels (-15 % at 24 MP) Content-Aware Scale's proxy seam search tracked each panel column's original column in an idx map, one usize per proxy pixel, shifted by every seam. The original column is x plus the number of columns already taken at or left of it, so a per-row list of the taken columns answers the same question without a buffer the size of the energy map. The recorded P28 budget number predates the proxies: the 2026-10-05 baseline commit carves at full height and recomputes energy per seam, and measures 266 s for the 24 MP case on the machine this was timed on, against 2.6 s now. Documented in docs/seam-carving-performance.md; enforce stays off until a budgeted-class run can vouch for the whole row. * review: generate exactly ch samples per pixel in bench_seam, reject ch > 4 The fixture flattened four samples per pixel and then truncated to w*h*ch, so a three-channel run grouped samples across pixel boundaries and any ch above four built a buffer shorter than the rows carve_width indexes. Generate ch samples inside the per-pixel closure and refuse ch outside 1..=4. The three-channel row is dropped from the perf note rather than re-measured here: it moved inside the timer noise either way, and the other agents' builds on this machine make a fresh number worthless. The four-channel hashes are unchanged, which is the check that this edit touched only the fixture. * perf(seam): find the removed column by binary search, not a linear scan Recording a seam recovered each removed original column by scanning the row's list of already-taken columns, so a deep shrink paid a comparison per removed column on every row and every seam: quadratic in the seam count, and worse than the index map this PR replaced once a shrink got deep enough. `o - i` never decreases along the row's sorted list, so that count is a binary search, and the original column belongs where the search stopped; the rows are independent and update in parallel, like the pixel shift. What is left per removed column is one insert. Output is unchanged: same columns, same order, same hashes (10 % and 50 % width cases below), and `counted_removed_columns_match_the_tracked_map` now runs a tracking and a counting carver side by side to one column and compares every row's list after every seam. docs/seam-carving-performance.md gains those cases, states that the ~104x figure is the two example runs rather than the baseline row, and names perf/baseline.json as the source of the 954 s. --------- Co-authored-by: ebosido444-ai <ebosido444-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
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Content-Aware Scale performance
2026-10-22. Two things are recorded here: what this change saves, and a correction to the P28 row's recorded number, which predates the seam-search proxies and reads as hundreds of times worse than the code does today.
The change
Content-Aware Scale shrinks an image by removing one seam at a time. On large images the seams are
searched on a vertically averaged copy (carve_width_proxy_height), and a panel column found there
is not an original column: each seam already removed has shifted the panel left. That was tracked
with an idx map — one usize per proxy pixel, built up front and shifted by every seam.
The original column is recoverable without the map: for the i-th column already taken from a row,
o - i is the panel column it occupied, so the taken columns at or left of panel column x are
those with o - i <= x, and the original column is x plus that count. o - i never decreases
along the row's list, so that count is a binary search and the original column inserts where the
search stopped; the rows are independent and update in parallel, like the pixel shift.
Counting it by scanning the row's list instead is a comparison per already-removed column, so its
cost grows with the square of the seam count and a deep shrink pays it on every row and every seam.
The binary search removes that term; what is left per removed column is one insert into a list of at
most seam_count entries, i.e. an element move rather than a comparison.
Output is unchanged: the same original columns reach the assembly pass, in the same order, so every
pixel written is the pixel the map produced. The 4-channel cases below hash identically (FNV-1a over
the output's raw f32 bits); the 3-channel case is unchanged within timer noise.
Timings
Windows 11, Intel i5-10300H (4 cores / 8 threads), rustc 1.98.1, --release, default rayon pool.
The timer covers seam::carve_width only: document read, tile writeback, history and the undo that
follows the command are outside it. Each cell is the same binary run before and after the change, in
the same session, nothing else running.
| Case | Before (ms) | After (ms) | Change | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4000 × 3000 → 3600, 4 ch | 1424.7 | 1132.9 | −20.5 % | identical |
| 6000 × 4000 → 5400, 4 ch | 3009.3 | 2559.4 | −15.0 % | identical |
| 7200 × 5000 → 6480, 4 ch | 4352.8 | 3766.9 | −13.5 % | identical |
Deep shrinks, where the counting scan was quadratic, on the same machine and the same binary with
only the recording swapped (three alternating runs per side, min/median):
| Case | Scan (ms) | Binary search (ms) | Change | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6000 × 4000 → 600, 4 ch (5 400 seams) | 16 640 / 16 757 | 13 915 / 14 066 | −16 % | identical, fnv 0f7eaa6af3cf1557 |
| 6000 × 4000 → 3000, 4 ch (3 000 seams) | 10 617 / 10 814 | 9 936 / 10 012 | −6 % | identical, fnv 1780ee9bc9077ee9 |
The element move that remains is still linear in the row's list length, so a shrink this deep is not down to the index map's cost yet on four cores; a rank bitvector over the row would remove it, and is not in this change.
The map was 24 MB next to a 36 MB pixel buffer at 24 MP, so the saving tracks how many bytes of row the seams have to shift. A three-channel case was measured too and moved inside the timer noise, so it is not reported as a win here. Further seam-search savings have to come from the dynamic program itself, not from bookkeeping.
P28's recorded number is stale
perf/baseline.json records P28 (Content-Aware Scale on 24 MP to 90 % width) as 954 192 ms from the
2026-10-05 baseline, which is why perf/budgets.toml carries enforce = false for that row. The
seam-search proxies and the per-seam energy update landed after that capture:
| Tree | 6000 × 4000 → 5400, 4 ch |
|---|---|
f5d2bcb (the 2026-10-05 baseline commit) |
266 039 ms |
1104b6f (main, plus this change) |
2 559 ms |
f5d2bcb has no PROXY_SHRINK_MIN_HEIGHT: it carves at full height with a full energy recompute per
seam. The 954 s in the baseline was that code on a machine whose recorded load average was 226–290
on 14 cores. The two example runs above are 104× apart (266 039 ms against 2 559 ms); that is the
seam-search core alone, and it is not the same measurement as the row's 954 s, which also includes a
document read and writeback the timer above excludes.
The row itself is not flipped to enforce = true here: the budget is set for the macOS/aarch64
machine class and only a run on that class can vouch for it. The carving core above is 2.56 s at
24 MP on a 4-core laptop CPU; the budgeted machine is faster, but the row also includes the document
read and writeback this measurement excludes. Flip it in the PR whose nightly run shows the row
under 3 s, and delete this paragraph with it.
Reproduce
cargo build --release -p photocraft-algo --example bench_seam
./target/release/examples/bench_seam 6000 4000 5400 4 # width height new_width channels (1..=4)
Build the base and the changed tree with separate CARGO_TARGET_DIRs and run the same line in both;
the printed FNV hash of the output must match, and the millisecond figure is the row above. The
example builds deterministic gradient-plus-detail content, so two runs of the same binary agree.
Correctness and repository checks
cargo test --release -p photocraft-algo seam passes, including carver_matches_reference,
output_bits_are_pinned, tall_proxy_shrink_preserves_full_resolution_salient_and_protected_pixels
and the cancellation test. cargo fmt --all --check and
cargo clippy -p photocraft-algo --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean. No command, UI or format
contract changed; Carver's track mode is still used by the enlargement path, which needs the
original columns it was written for.