Same profile on both sides

It is very convenient to detect whatever the source and destination profiles are same to instruct the CMM to do nothing. Seems quite simple but it is certaily complex.

The issue is on embedded profiles. You can't do a binary compare because embedded profiles may have changed attributes. That is, some fields in the profile header are different to reflect the preference on intent and the fact the profile is being used embedded.

V4 offersProfileID, which is an MD5 checksum of the profile avoiding those conflicting fields. Which is a good thing: if both source and destination profiles does have same ProfileID AND the intent is same on both profiles, then you can get rid of the whole transform as it is basically a no-op.

But sometimes (most of times, currently) you get AdobeRGB or sRGB embedded, which are v2 profiles. No Profile ID, and a very common case.

So, let's try to do some optimization. If both profiles are matrix-shaper, you can detect if the obtained matrix is an identity, and then if the curves are cancelling. We have room for improvement in 3 cases:

• All different
• Same primaries but different gamma
• Same primaries and equal tone curves

Last case is a no-op, but is pretty frequent: untagged images assumed to be sRGB and uncalibrated monitor assumed to be sRGB. Handling this case separately is a big plus if you care about speed.