On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:16:13PM -0600, Brian Paul wrote: | ... | If we only return a true/false result from the slow/fast query it may not | be obvious to the application writer what caused the slow path to be taken, | or what to do about it.
Yep, it turns into a combinatorial search problem. I believe this is unavoidable, unless hardware changes in some ways that don't seem too likely today. The same is true for isfast-style approaches. | In the DRI drivers we keep a bitfield to determine if/why we need a software | fallback. I suppose IsFast() could return a similar bitfield but coming up | with a set of meaningful bits at the right granularity would be a challenge | too. I haven't thought about that, but I'd bet you're right. Allen ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
