D627: Memory usage optimization for the compositor.

The compostor used a fixed size of 4 floats to hold pixel data. this
patch will select size of a pixel based on its type.
It uses 1 float for Value, 3 float for vector and 4 floats for color
data types.

When benchmarking on shots (opening shot of caminandes) we get a
reduction of memory of 30% and a tiny speedup as less data
transformations needs to take place (but these are negligable.

More information of the patch can be found on
https://developer.blender.org/D627 and
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/Compositor2014_p1.1_TD

Developers: jbakker & mdewanchand
Thanks for Sergey for his indept review.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/compositor/operations/COM_DoubleEdgeMaskOperation.cpp b/source/blender/compositor/operations/COM_DoubleEdgeMaskOperation.cpp
index 5006720f091..234a61a4c41 100644
--- a/source/blender/compositor/operations/COM_DoubleEdgeMaskOperation.cpp
+++ b/source/blender/compositor/operations/COM_DoubleEdgeMaskOperation.cpp
@@ -1270,11 +1270,9 @@ void *DoubleEdgeMaskOperation::initializeTileData(rcti *rect)
 		MemoryBuffer *innerMask = (MemoryBuffer *)this->m_inputInnerMask->initializeTileData(rect);
 		MemoryBuffer *outerMask = (MemoryBuffer *)this->m_inputOuterMask->initializeTileData(rect);
 		float *data = (float *)MEM_mallocN(sizeof(float) * this->getWidth() * this->getHeight(), __func__);
-		float *imask = innerMask->convertToValueBuffer();
-		float *omask = outerMask->convertToValueBuffer();
+		float *imask = innerMask->getBuffer();
+		float *omask = outerMask->getBuffer();
 		doDoubleEdgeMask(imask, omask, data);
-		MEM_freeN(imask);
-		MEM_freeN(omask);
 		this->m_cachedInstance = data;
 	}
 	unlockMutex();