Started with experimental hashing of base tiles to avoid redundant write operations and pyramid updates.

common/basetilehash.go

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// Copyright 2016 by Sascha L. Teichmann
+// Use of this source code is governed by the MIT license
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package common
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"image"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+type btPos struct {
+	x int
+	y int
+}
+
+type BaseTileHash struct {
+	// XXX: Maybe use some kind of LRU cache instead?
+	hashes map[btPos][]byte
+	sync.Mutex
+}
+
+func NewBaseTileHash() *BaseTileHash {
+	return &BaseTileHash{hashes: map[btPos][]byte{}}
+}
+
+func (bth *BaseTileHash) Update(x, y int, img image.Image) bool {
+	hash := SHA1Image(img)
+	key := btPos{x, y}
+	bth.Lock()
+	defer bth.Unlock()
+	if old, found := bth.hashes[key]; found {
+		equals := bytes.Equal(old, hash)
+		if !equals {
+			bth.hashes[key] = hash
+		}
+		return !equals
+	}
+	bth.hashes[key] = hash
+	return true
+}

common/image.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ package common
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
+	"crypto/sha1"
 	"errors"
 	"image"
 	"image/color"
@@ -110,3 +111,52 @@ func LoadPNG(path string, bg color.RGBA) image.Image {
 	}
 	return img
 }
+
+func sha1rgba(img *image.RGBA) []byte {
+	hash := sha1.New()
+	w, h := img.Rect.Dx()*4, img.Rect.Dy()
+
+	pos := img.PixOffset(img.Rect.Min.X, img.Rect.Min.Y)
+
+	for ; h > 0; h, pos = h-1, pos+img.Stride {
+		hash.Write(img.Pix[pos : pos+w])
+	}
+
+	return hash.Sum(nil)
+}
+
+func sha1uniform(img *image.Uniform) []byte {
+	r, g, b, a := img.C.RGBA()
+	return sha1.New().Sum([]byte{
+		byte(r >> 16),
+		byte(g >> 16),
+		byte(b >> 16),
+		byte(a >> 16)})
+}
+
+func SHA1Image(img image.Image) []byte {
+
+	switch i := img.(type) {
+	case *image.RGBA:
+		return sha1rgba(i)
+	case *image.Uniform:
+		return sha1uniform(i)
+	}
+
+	log.Println("WARN: slow path for SHA1Image")
+
+	hash := sha1.New()
+	bounds := img.Bounds()
+	var pix [4]byte
+	for x := bounds.Min.X; x <= bounds.Max.X; x++ {
+		for y := bounds.Min.Y; y <= bounds.Max.Y; y++ {
+			r, g, b, a := img.At(x, y).RGBA()
+			pix[0] = byte(r >> 16)
+			pix[1] = byte(g >> 16)
+			pix[2] = byte(b >> 16)
+			pix[3] = byte(a >> 16)
+			hash.Write(pix[:])
+		}
+	}
+	return hash.Sum(nil)
+}