Re: Quesa - "Most Wanted" list

[Dair G. <da...@re...>]

Roger Holmes wrote:

>But the bulk of the changes have not yet been approved, let alone
>checked in. Its good to see things coming alive on the list, but every
>change makes the task of merging in the changes I made last year just
>that bit more difficult.

Yes, this is my fault - these have been sitting in my inbox for months
now, but I've never got round to looking at them properly.

I'll do so this weekend.


>My "Most Wanted" item would be the removal of the need for every
>texture to be reformatted pixel by pixel into the common format we use
>to drive OpenGL. I understand OpenGL can use native Quesa component
>ordering, so this is a big CPU overhead which is not necessary.

This will be an overhead when a texture is submitted, but once submitted
the texture object should be cached - so the biggest impact is really
memory (we have some extra copies of the image data sitting around
taking pages up in system memory).

BTW, Roger's original message went to the old list. Joe did the same
thing a couple of days ago - can everyone make sure they update their
address book? Or we end up with threads being split over the two lists,
like I've just done with this one... :-)


-dair
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