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

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

Josh Vanderhoof wrote:
> 
> I would think you would keep a cache of the stuff that you've compiled
> to avoid re-compiling every time you want to call the routine.  So
> you're really looking at a one time start up cost.  Is there something
> where the code would change on every single frame?

Absolutely.  I'm not sure how much of it needs to be truly dynamic, but
it's useful to know how expensive compilation can be.  It might be worth
compiling it as a .o file and using the BFD library to extract the
function, for instance.

-- Gareth