The marCCD reader read each frame's 16-bit scanlines into scratch and widened them to int32 on the
worker thread (marccd::ReadInto, ~20 % of the image-loop worker CPU on 4nwv), and the 4-byte image was
uploaded. ReadRawImage now reads the scanlines straight into the image's buffer and hands them over as
a new read-only CompressionAlgorithm::UINT16_WIDENED (mode Int32): two bytes a pixel cross PCIe, from
page-locked memory, and the preprocessing kernel widens them itself.
It is not CompressedImageMode::Uint16, which calls 65535 an error pixel; a marCCD's 65535 is its
saturation marker. So the kernel compares each pixel with int32's error marker and the int32 saturation
cap - the comparisons are made on the pixel's value, in int64, rather than in the storage type - and
decides every pixel exactly as for the int32 image the host would have widened it to. The host widening
(JFJochDecompressPtr) is the CPU path.
Test: ImagePreprocessorGPU_StoredEncodingsMatchCPU, with a frame carrying 65535 at a saturation of
65535, against the CPU preprocessor on the host-widened image.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EizBKhTqrAYago9KJG3dA3
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