Re: [Mesa3d-dev] dynamic code generation with gcc

[Gareth H. <ga...@va...>]

Josh Vanderhoof wrote:
> 
> Gareth brought up software rendering.  While I think Gareth's dynamic
> software renderer design could benefit from compiling at run time, I
> was thinking more about functions that are currently implemented with
> template header files.  They are usually named "*tmp.h" and are used
> in both hardware and software rendering.  If Mesa could compile new
> functions at run time, you could cover more special cases without
> bloating the library with functions that are never called.

To tell you the truth, I hadn't really thought about the implementation
details of my software renderer enough.  I certainly agree that there
are benefits to using compilation, but this is a case where the cost of
doing so would need to be investigated.  One day when I have the time to
actually write the code, we'll see what happens...

-- Gareth