* [core] improve Color & Clamp performance
When profiling startup of a HelloForms app on a Pixel 3 XL, I noticed:
Total(ms) Self(ms) Calls Method name
3 1 572 Xamarin.Forms.Internals.NumericExtensions:Clamp (double,double,double)
This method is called multiple times for every `Color` created and
~142 are created on startup. This is why it shows up 572 times for an
app with a single `Label`.
I found there is a `Math.Clamp` implementation in corefx:
6662a0f2fd/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Math.cs (L224-L225)
The only difference is this version can throw an exception, so we
could return the incoming value instead. That would be bad to change!
If I rework `NumericExtensions` to use corefx's implementation it is a
bit faster, I did a BenchmarkDotNet comparison running with Mono on
macOS:
Method | Mean | Error | StdDev |
------- |----------:|---------:|---------:|
Clamp2 | 53.89 ns | 0.668 ns | 0.522 ns |
Clamp1 | 61.84 ns | 1.270 ns | 2.289 ns |
Color2 | 112.50 ns | 2.643 ns | 3.705 ns |
Color1 | 129.03 ns | 2.603 ns | 4.760 ns |
Maybe every `Color` is ~13% faster?
Code for the benchmark is here:
https://github.com/jonathanpeppers/Benchmarks/blob/clamp/Benchmarks/Clamp.cs
Additionally, I reworked the list of default `Color` fields so that
they call a new private constructor that does less math and avoids
`Clamp` completely. We should still keep the original change, as it
would help any cases where the `Color.To*` methods would be used in
apps.
I seem to be able to see a small difference in a Release build running
on a Pixel 3 XL:
Before:
12-18 13:04:27.154 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +606ms
12-18 13:04:30.851 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +589ms
12-18 13:04:34.601 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +587ms
12-18 13:04:38.352 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +575ms
12-18 13:04:42.084 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +583ms
12-18 13:04:45.802 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +573ms
12-18 13:04:49.566 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +592ms
12-18 13:04:53.284 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +583ms
12-18 13:04:57.015 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +594ms
12-18 13:05:00.715 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +581ms
Average(ms): 586.3
Std Err(ms): 3.05886689260364
Std Dev(ms): 9.67298643990917
After:
12-18 13:08:16.677 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +593ms
12-18 13:08:20.377 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +577ms
12-18 13:08:24.107 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +583ms
12-18 13:08:27.827 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +576ms
12-18 13:08:31.574 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +586ms
12-18 13:08:35.324 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +584ms
12-18 13:08:39.056 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +587ms
12-18 13:08:42.773 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +586ms
12-18 13:08:46.523 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +584ms
12-18 13:08:50.256 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +587ms
Average(ms): 584.3
Std Err(ms): 1.56382721409865
Std Dev(ms): 4.94525586350753
This change seems low risk and would help all platforms.
* One last tweak byte -> int
Doing some reading: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43158214/132442
It seems `int` performs even better than `byte`. I did another test
run with just this change:
Before:
12-18 13:37:23.347 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +576ms
12-18 13:37:27.079 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +575ms
12-18 13:37:30.828 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +581ms
12-18 13:37:34.578 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +588ms
12-18 13:37:38.296 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +572ms
12-18 13:37:42.046 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +579ms
12-18 13:37:45.781 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +576ms
12-18 13:37:49.526 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +586ms
12-18 13:37:53.276 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +586ms
12-18 13:37:57.009 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +582ms
Average(ms): 580.1
Std Err(ms): 1.70912583243924
Std Dev(ms): 5.40473043833928
After:
12-18 13:35:38.745 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +572ms
12-18 13:35:42.459 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +572ms
12-18 13:35:46.209 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +581ms
12-18 13:35:49.974 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +581ms
12-18 13:35:53.724 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +574ms
12-18 13:35:57.474 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +580ms
12-18 13:36:01.207 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +573ms
12-18 13:36:04.957 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +568ms
12-18 13:36:08.707 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +566ms
12-18 13:36:12.407 1490 1517 I ActivityTaskManager: Displayed com.xamarin.forms.helloforms/crc6450e568c951913723.MainActivity: +565ms
Average(ms): 573.2
Std Err(ms): 1.87853370714738
Std Dev(ms): 5.94044517598546