It sounds like a good idea to me. The thought had crossed my mind while continuously recompiling to switch between checking performance/running at full speed and seeing debug output.
btw, I added culling back on the mach64-0-0-3-branch by basically copying the Mesa software culling code (as Keith suggested) into the state update function tied to Driver.CullFace and Driver.FontFace and I can see the improvement in the glxgears numbers, which are back to about where they were with the old branch now. On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Keith Whitwell wrote: > The mach64 people may find this a useful thing to do on their driver: > > I've just recently done what John C. had always said we should be doing: Keep > the debug 'printfs' compiled in all the time and be able to switch them on/off > from the command line. This has been a huge help both tracking down bugs and > also optimizing for new applications (eg the viewperf tests). > > On the tcl branch, I can turn mesa debug flags on like this: > > MESA_DEBUG=api,texture ./gears > > this will set MESA_VERBOSE to (MESA_VERBOSE_API|MESA_VERBOSE_TEXTURE) > > Similarly, > > RADEON_DEBUG=fallbacks,ioctls ./gears > > will set RADEON_DEBUG to (DEBUG_FALLBACKS|DEBUG_IOCTLS) > > The performance penalty for keeping the printfs compiled in seems insigificant > so far... > > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > -- Leif Delgass http://www.retinalburn.net _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
