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Reverts: Allow color delta tolerance in in-memory fuzzy image comparator

Initiated by: @andywolff

Reason for reverting: not needed because #196063 is the true root cause of the flakiness

Original PR Author: @andywolff

Reviewed By: @gaaclarke

The original PR description is provided below:

Part of #193029
Pre-requisite for #192937

This PR adds color delta and pixel rate tolerance parameters to the engine's in-memory ImageComparer.fuzzyCompareImages helper, and updates Canvas.drawParagraph renders tab as space instead of tofu to tolerate minor subpixel anti-aliasing variations across consecutive passes.

While verifying #192937, Linux linux_host_engine_test failed repeatedly in canvas_test.dart under Vulkan with SwiftShader.

The test Canvas.drawParagraph renders tab as space instead of tofu renders >\t< and > < into separate in-memory images via toImage and compares them using comparer.fuzzyCompareImages(tabImage, spaceImage). Despite the name fuzzyCompareImages, the previous implementation was pixel exact with no fuzziness at all. How un-comfy!

Under CPU-based software Vulkan drivers (such as SwiftShader on Linux CI runners), anti-aliasing edge rounding differences between separate snapshot passes produce 1–2 channel delta variations on glyph boundaries, causing the comparison to fail.

Previously, consecutive snapshots left un-cleared host buffer data behind that masked subpixel variations. With my leak fix PR, resetting the buffer on each snapshot forces every text pass to allocate from scratch, exposing small driver-level raster differences on software Vulkan.

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This pull request simplifies the image comparison logic in goldens.dart by removing tolerance thresholds and updates canvas_test.dart to use the simplified exact comparison. Feedback suggests refactoring the updated fuzzyCompareImages method to avoid unsafe null assertions on toByteData() and to improve performance by replacing the nested loops with a single-pass Uint32List comparison.

Comment on lines +70 to 79
int getPixel(ByteData data, int x, int y) => data.getUint32((x + y * golden.width) * 4);
final ByteData goldenData = (await golden.toByteData())!;
final ByteData testImageData = (await testImage.toByteData())!;
for (var y = 0; y < golden.height; y++) {
for (var x = 0; x < golden.width; x++) {
if (getPixel(goldenData, x, y) != getPixel(testImageData, x, y)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}

// When tolerance thresholds are configured, inspect each pixel's color
// channels and count those exceeding [maxColorDelta] to determine whether
// the proportion of different pixels is within [maxDifferentPixelsRate].
var differentPixels = 0;
var maxObservedDelta = 0.0;

final Uint8List goldenBytes = goldenData.buffer.asUint8List(
goldenData.offsetInBytes,
totalPixels * 4,
);
final Uint8List testBytes = testImageData.buffer.asUint8List(
testImageData.offsetInBytes,
totalPixels * 4,
);

for (var i = 0; i < totalPixels; i++) {
final double pixelDelta = _colorDistance(goldenBytes, testBytes, i * 4);
if (pixelDelta > maxObservedDelta) {
maxObservedDelta = pixelDelta;
}
if (pixelDelta > maxColorDelta) {
differentPixels++;
}
}

final double diffRate = differentPixels / totalPixels;
if (diffRate > maxDifferentPixelsRate) {
print(
'fuzzyCompareImages failed: '
'maxObservedDelta=${maxObservedDelta.toStringAsFixed(3)} (threshold=$maxColorDelta), '
'differentPixels=$differentPixels/$totalPixels '
'(${(diffRate * 100).toStringAsFixed(3)}%, maxAllowed=${(maxDifferentPixelsRate * 100).toStringAsFixed(3)}%)',
);
return false;
}

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The reverted implementation uses the unsafe null assertion operator ! on toByteData(), which can throw a runtime exception if the image is disposed or if the data retrieval fails. Additionally, performing nested loops with pixel-by-pixel getUint32 calls is highly inefficient.

We can improve both safety and performance by safely handling null values and using a single-pass Uint32List comparison, which is significantly faster.

    final ByteData? goldenData = await golden.toByteData();
    final ByteData? testImageData = await testImage.toByteData();
    if (goldenData == null || testImageData == null) {
      return false;
    }
    final int totalPixels = golden.width * golden.height;
    final Uint32List goldenUint32 = goldenData.buffer.asUint32List(goldenData.offsetInBytes, totalPixels);
    final Uint32List testUint32 = testImageData.buffer.asUint32List(testImageData.offsetInBytes, totalPixels);
    for (int i = 0; i < totalPixels; i++) {
      if (goldenUint32[i] != testUint32[i]) {
        return false;
      }
    }
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I don't see any new callsites which use the added arg, so this should be safe

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