move the attribute to the front of the function to quiet clang warning:
GCC does not allow no_sanitize_thread attribute in this position on a
function definition
Change-Id: Ie4cc6e35a07bd00eab67d9cd6801bd2be9cfe676
SSE2 version is 2.1x faster
This is used to transfer the alpha plane to green channel before lossless compression.
Change-Id: I01d9df0051c183b1ff5d6eb69961d4f43e33141a
* We were re-doing most of the work in plain-C as 'left-over'.
* we were always returning has_alpha = true because of a bad mask all_0xff
These bugs were conservative and silent, in the sense that we were 'just' doing
more work than necessary.
Now, the SSE2 version is really 2x faster than the C version.
Change-Id: I6c8132a267fe3c7a3d1fa70e7a5fcd10719543fa