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So I first noticed that this function was using a large lookup table behind a OnceLock. I initially thought about just making it a const, but when looking at things further. I realized it could be made much simpler. If we just treated the numbers as fixed point we can get rid of any of the floating point calculations and especially divisions. You can see how efficiently this can compile down here: https://llvm.godbolt.org/z/K83jEjvdq You can see all three versions here: https://godbolt.org/z/nWc1as1nq * First one is basically the original essentially being called by: `ColorImage::from_rgba_unmultiplied()` * Second is the const Lookup table instead of the OnceLock and runtime generation. * Third is the fixed point implementation. At least looking at the bytes reported compiler explorer the OnceLock and the const Table results are in similar size, and the const table is surprisingly smaller when I compile to a binary object in compiler explorer. However though the oncelock is producing a lot SIMD instructions for initialization so I guess not too surprised. The fixed point math is much smaller than both. The const table is probably faster, but does bloat the binary images, and again when it's this fast to compute: https://llvm.godbolt.org/z/K83jEjvdq I am not sure the extra bytes are worth it. Next, what I did was merge `from_rgba_unmultiplied` and `from_rgba_unmultiplied_const`. Moreover with the fixed point math the `from_rgba_unmultiplied_const` is probably not necessary anymore, but it's part of the public API so I left it. Lastly, I just added a sanity test to make sure the math checks out which it does. You can even sweep the 2^16 inputs to be sure.
