New acceleration architecture

[Adam Jackson]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 09:14, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Yep.  In KAA drivers you would save out whatever bits you needed to some
> > global variable in the Prepare call.  I always thought that was a bit
> > ugly, but it worked.
>
> Isn't moving paramenter from frequent functions to "prepare" functions
> going to hurt current compilers that can optimize iter-procedure calls but
> have problems with global/stored values?

At this level of the system, inter-procedure optimization is total noise 
compared to the amount of time required to set up the card.  And it's not 
just one body call per setup call; it's one setup and N body calls.  You 
really do not want to send the complete setup state down to the card on every 
op body.

The setup/subsequent pattern has proven itself to be quite performant in 
opengl and directx.  I don't see any reason to abandon it.

- ajax
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