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TL;DR

• Avoid an unused comparison prediction in the opt-in HEVC decoder when a component has no effective nondefault weights.
• Preserve decoded pixels and inter-prediction statistics.

Background

The decoder computes an unweighted scratch prediction for every component. Only components with nondefault weights consume it, to count samples changed by explicit weighting. Refs #22.

What changes

Decoded output and statistics stay the same. Components with absent or explicitly default weights avoid the unused combination.

• Covered: comparison prediction at both supported bit depths, with regression checks for each prediction direction and mixed component weights.
• Not covered: interpolation, destination prediction, neighbour lookup, kernel changes, scratch allocation, CLI behaviour, default features, or reference-host variability.

After merging: None.

Decisions

• Use the existing per-component condition instead of testing whether a weight table exists. A later component's weights cannot make an earlier component's comparison necessary.
• Keep actual destination validation, weighting and stores unchanged. The comparison buffer stays allocated, so memory accounting does not change.

Evidence

Verification run: Native Linux release tests and Linux development tests pass in automatic and forced-scalar modes, with 259 library and 16 example tests each. Strict Clippy passes in both development modes. The regression fails before the guard and passes after it, checking complete planes, statistics and untouched comparison scratch.

Four eight-picture reference prefixes match the qualified pinned oracle in baseline, automatic and forced-scalar builds. A shipping-call preflight confirms that only unused comparison calls disappear. Paired single-CPU timing shows three clear improvements and one inconclusive Main10 result whose interval includes no change. These are reference figures, not a broad-cohort claim. The complete-picture sanitizer completes 3,581,210 inputs in 601 seconds without a finding. Complete automatic and forced-scalar conformance workflows pass at this head.

Similarity at 4b3011993621e03f7b59d108ae8e9c7ae01d3bde against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans of 50 or more tokens, zero outside the allowlist, zero problems and zero stale entries.

Links: Inter-prediction design, automatic full conformance, forced-scalar full conformance.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance
  • HEVC decoding skips unnecessary intermediate prediction work for components with default weights, while preserving decoded picture results across supported bit depths and prediction modes.
• Documentation
  • Clarified when weighted prediction comparisons are required and how default weights affect processing.

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Walkthrough

HEVC prediction now creates and computes intermediate unweighted predictions only for components with nondefault weights. Tests cover prediction modes, bit depths, weights, output planes, statistics, and intermediate-buffer contents. The design document describes the conditional behavior.

Changes: HEVC prediction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional comparison scratch and validation crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/inter.rs, docs/design/hevc-inter.md	predict creates and computes the intermediate unweighted prediction only for components with nondefault weights. Tests cover 8- and 10-bit pictures, L0, L1, and bi-prediction, and absent, default, and nondefault weights. The design document records this condition and states that destination prediction and related processing remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 4b301

No actionable merge-blocking risk is established. The change is ready for normal merge checks, including completion of the reported conformance workflows.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "perf(hevc): skip unused comparison predictions" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change. The PR skips the unweighted comparison prediction for components without effective no…
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The title "perf(hevc): skip unused comparison predictions" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change. The PR skips the unweighted comparison prediction for components without effective nondefault weights in the HEVC inter-prediction path, which the raw summary and objectives both confirm. It is 46 characters, within the 50-character guidance, and describes one outcome.

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Resolution

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• crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/inter.rs
• docs/design/hevc-inter.md

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Review: no blocking issue

Reviewed head 4b3011993621e03f7b59d108ae8e9c7ae01d3bde (two commits, design first, both signed off).

What I checked

• Observability of the skipped scratch result. scratch.inter_output is read only inside the same component's if nondefault block, after that block has written it. Nothing else reads its contents: parallel.rs only copies it and reports its length, and heap_bytes reports its allocation, which is unchanged. weighted_units and weighted_changed_samples are still updated only under nondefault, so every inter statistic is unchanged.
• Error ordering. The skipped call could fail in three ways. (1) RectMut::new on inter_output: it is allocated with the same length as both predictors (4096, or 0 without a reference), and Rect::new on those with the same geometry has already succeeded, so this cannot fail on its own. (2) combine rectangle mismatch: the geometry is identical, so this cannot fail. (3) Error::Sample from predictor range validation: the range depends only on depth, and the destination call runs the same validation on the same predictors before writing anything ("rejected inputs leave output unchanged"). So the same error is still returned, and the destination is still untouched. The only check that runs earlier in the destination path is the bi-prediction denominator check, and both lists share one denominator per component, so it cannot fail first.
• Weighted versus unweighted bi-prediction. Explicit tables with default values still go through weight_bi/weight_uni into the destination. Only the unused comparison is skipped, which matches the count proof: unweighted combine calls are exactly halved, and interpolation is unchanged.
• Tests. On macOS arm64 with native-hevc, all 259 library tests pass, and the 16 reconstruction::inter tests pass with scalar. With the guard removed, the new regression fails, and every other test still passes. So no existing test depended on the comparison having run.
• Reference numbers. I recomputed them from the 21 retained calls per cell: paired-median speedups of 1.0334, 1.0475, 1.0640 and 1.0137, with an equal-cell mean of 1.03963, which matches the stated +3.96%. Every timed call reports at most one worker. One cell's interval includes 1.000, and the PR body discloses this.
• Open perf(hevc): decode ready pictures concurrently #516 edits the lines next to this change (the destination offset becomes row-relative). It keeps the comparison code unchanged and does not read inter_output anywhere else, so the two changes do not conflict in behaviour. Only a textual merge is needed.
• Public text: the title has 39 characters, there are no hard wraps, no Co-Authored-By line, no FFmpeg figures and no corpus names. No Greptile findings.

Non-blocking

• The 10-bit d07 cell has a wide per-pair range (0.89 to 1.27), even though its bootstrap interval is above 1. Treat it as a noisy reference figure.