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TL;DR

• Skip the CTU tile lookup in the HEVC coding-tree walker's neighbour check when the picture has a single tile, in the opt-in HEVC decoder.
• Decoded output, errors and multi-tile behaviour are unchanged.

Background

Walker::neighbour answers every left and above availability query during coding-tree, prediction-mode and context derivation. After the cell and slice checks, it maps the neighbour's CTB to its tile with Layout::at_raster and refuses neighbours in another tile. When the picture parameter set has one tile column and one tile row, every CTB is in tile 0, so that lookup can only return the current tile. A neighbour inside the picture always maps to a valid CTB address, so the lookup's address error cannot fire either. Refs #22.

What changes

Single-tile pictures skip one tile-grid lookup per neighbour query. Multi-tile pictures take the same path as before.

• Covered: Walker::neighbour in the opt-in HEVC decoder.
• Not covered: SAO merge candidates, which keep their tile comparison; the walker's cell lookups; CABAC; default features and CLI behaviour.

After merging: None.

Decisions

• Test the tile count from the active PPS instead of caching a per-slice flag. The two comparisons are cheaper than the lookup they guard and keep the change local to the one function.
• Keep it safe Rust. The gain comes from skipping work whose result is known, not from removing a bounds check.

Evidence

Verification run: cargo test -p coreav-hevc --features native-hevc passes (306 tests) on macOS arm64. cargo fmt --check and strict Clippy (--all-targets -D warnings) pass for coreav-hevc with native-hevc.

On GitHub Actions x86-64 (single CPU, one decoder thread, eight-picture prefixes of four existing lossy reference inputs, seven paired repeats), both arms matched the pinned FFmpeg 9 oracle picture by picture. Whole-process instructions against main: 2.41%, 2.66% and 2.67% fewer on the three inputs that spend time in the lookup, and -0.17% on the fourth, which spends a negligible share there (mean 1.89%). Paired median wall time improved 3.1%, 2.1% and 2.0% on the first three and stayed within noise on the fourth (+0.3%). These are reference figures on shared runners, not a timed claim.

Similarity at 976563156ca6891fdcfc7fc0160a22c6f3b58891 against the main allowlist passes: 112 spans of 50 or more tokens, 0 not allowlisted, 0 problems, 0 stale entries.

Links: automatic (https://github.com/coreav-dev/coreav/actions/runs/42580027420) and forced-scalar (https://github.com/coreav-dev/coreav/actions/runs/42580030715) full conformance runs at this head are in progress.

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• I copied nothing from other implementations.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved neighbor handling during reconstruction for single-tile layouts. Previously, an unnecessary tile lookup could interfere with access to an available neighbor; single-tile layouts now avoid that lookup. This helps ensure available neighboring data can be used as expected, while checks for crossing tile boundaries remain in place for pictures with multiple tile rows or columns.

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Walkthrough

Walker::neighbour now checks tile membership only when the picture has multiple tile columns or rows. For a single-tile layout, it skips the tile lookup before returning an available neighbor.

Changes: Neighbor lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional tile membership check crates/coreav-hevc/src/reconstruction/syntax.rs	Walker::neighbour checks tile membership when the picture has multiple tile columns or rows. In a single-tile layout, it skips that lookup.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 97656

The optimization preserves neighbor eligibility for validated layouts. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "perf(hevc): skip tile lookup in one-tile pictures" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change: the HEVC walker skips the tile-grid lookup in single-tile pictures. The raw summar…
Description check		The description covers most required template sections. It has a TL;DR with a clear change and a note that output is unchanged. The Background explains the cause and the reasoning for the change. What…
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The title "perf(hevc): skip tile lookup in one-tile pictures" follows Conventional Commits and names the main change: the HEVC walker skips the tile-grid lookup in single-tile pictures. The raw summary confirms that Walker::neighbour now skips the raster-to-layout tile lookup when the picture has one tile. The title is 49 characters, which is within the template's 50-character limit for the description, and it does not list several changes.

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