Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Re: [Dri-devel] TnL interface in the OOP/C++ world

[Allen A. <ak...@po...>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:13:44PM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote:
| ....  IMHO, we'd be better to spend our time writing a highly optimized 
| just-in-time compiler for ARB_vertex_program.  Then we could just write 
| vertex programs for the different "important" state vectors and let the 
| compiler generate the super-loop.  ...

Which brings to mind one of my favorite papers on dynamic compilation:

	http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/massalin92synthesi.html

|                               ...  Of course, there are still "issues" 
| with vertex programs. :(

The ARB IP working group is trying to resolve those, or at least come up
with a way to resolve them.  Nothing cast in concrete yet,
unfortunately.

Allen