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I was trying to port some SSE2 code (fast corner detector score computation) using ARM Neon instruction. The code is quite simple at first sight but the results are different for some reason. The thing is that sometimes the difference may be quite significant and sometimes differs by 2 or 3 values. It would be great if someone can explain why it can happen.
Here is the code
Original SSE2:
__m128i q0 = _mm_set1_epi16(-1000), q1 = _mm_set1_epi16(1000);
for( k = 0; k < 16; k += 8 )
{
__m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+1));
__m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+2));
__m128i a = _mm_min_epi16(v0, v1);
__m128i b = _mm_max_epi16(v0, v1);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+3));
a = _mm_min_epi16(a, v0);
b = _mm_max_epi16(b, v0);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+4));
a = _mm_min_epi16(a, v0);
b = _mm_max_epi16(b, v0);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+5));
a = _mm_min_epi16(a, v0);
b = _mm_max_epi16(b, v0);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+6));
a = _mm_min_epi16(a, v0);
b = _mm_max_epi16(b, v0);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+7));
a = _mm_min_epi16(a, v0);
b = _mm_max_epi16(b, v0);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+8));
a = _mm_min_epi16(a, v0);
b = _mm_max_epi16(b, v0);
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k));
q0 = _mm_max_epi16(q0, _mm_min_epi16(a, v0));
q1 = _mm_min_epi16(q1, _mm_max_epi16(b, v0));
v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((__m128i*)(d+k+9));
q0 = _mm_max_epi16(q0, _mm_min_epi16(a, v0));
q1 = _mm_min_epi16(q1, _mm_max_epi16(b, v0));
}
q0 = _mm_max_epi16(q0, _mm_sub_epi16(_mm_setzero_si128(), q1));
q0 = _mm_max_epi16(q0, _mm_unpackhi_epi64(q0, q0));
q0 = _mm_max_epi16(q0, _mm_srli_si128(q0, 4));
q0 = _mm_max_epi16(q0, _mm_srli_si128(q0, 2));
threshold = (short)_mm_cvtsi128_si32(q0) - 1;
HERE IS WORKING ARM NEON CODE:
int16x8_t q0 = vd