Subtitle renderer performance comparison

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anime codecs benchmark

Date: 2011-11-20

Platform: Intel Q6600 @ 2.4GHz (stock) running Windows 7 x64

Engine: 32-bit Avisynth 2.58 (stock) build 2008-12-22

Script: BlankClip(length=30602, fps=29.97).FILTERNAME("flcl-ed.realfx.ass")

Test: $ time avs2yuv video.avs -o NUL

Results

- MT Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Notes
assrender 0.17 No 1m49.547s 0m47.508s 0m47.484s Ran fontconfig in first run
assrender 0.24.1 No 1m26.377s 0m50.542s 0m50.951s Ran fontconfig in first run. Fastest overall
vsfilter-threaded 2011-09-11 Yes 3m42.693s 3m41.450s Hit ~75% CPU at times, worst-performing
vsfilter-threaded c13_hibit Yes 3m21.930s 3m26.416s 3m20.588s Marginal improvement
xy-vsfilter 2011-11-19 No 1m2.361s 1m2.303s 1m1.243s Fastest directshow
vsfilter-mpchc r3739 2011-09-25 No 2m43.415s 2m41.716s Eeerily similar performance to VSFilterMod
vsfilter 2.38 2008-06-12 No 3m15.400s 3m16.573s
vsfilter mod 1.0 2011-01-09 No 2m42.696s 2m42.052s