On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:29:23 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:52:04 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > > stupid goal to "get more fps" just for such benchmarks. there is no > > POINT going faster than the screen refresh. you lose frames. in real > > life you want no MORe frames per second than the animator framereate > > - regardless of "benchmarking". if you want a "benchmark mode" where > > all this frame limiting stuff is dropped and it just spins and draws > > as fast as it can - sure, but for an actual "use this in real life" > > library you want it to simply respect the animator framerate and not > > bypass it because someone has a benchmark bee in their bonnet. > > Inversely, you do want the time taken to calculate each frame to be as > small as possible, so that you have more time available for other correct - but thats a separate matter. benchmarking (ie getting as high an fps value as u can when running in a tight loop) is a way of doing this and seeing it get better (fps goes up). but its a benchmarking thing - not a "runtime real life use" thing. that effort to reduce time taken to produce a frame ends up keeping more cpu for other things indeed. > things. Like the rest of the apps on a multitasking computer for > instance, and definitely the rest of your own app. But yes, more FPS > than can actually be displayed by the frame rate of the monitor, or > perceived by the human eye, is a waste. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
