i've found here (pentium D 805) : okay, we lost 3d clouds and some shiny transparencies, but...
the frame rate, although lower, gave me a smoother play. no bigger drops, like with the plib branch. in general, it left the impression of a more robust fgfs just my 3cents (sorry for the bad english) On 11/7/06, Lou Sanchez-Chopitea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Curtis Olson wrote: > > > On 11/7/06, *leee* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > I suspect that the graphics will prove to be the trickiest problem > > - it's by > > far the greatest resource user - > > > > > > > > Right, in all this we need to remember that in all our past > > benchmarking, the graphics themselves account for 90-95% of the > > workload. OSG provides some opportunities to thread the graphics > > rendering itself, but beyond that, the remaining 5-10% of > > computational effort is pretty small in comparison. Further dividing > > that up into additional threads may not be such a huge win, unless as > > Durk says there are tasks that are "bursty" like metar fetching which > > has to block on network IO ... that makes a lot of sense to put into a > > separate thread, but does anyone realize the pain we wen through to > > debug that simple task? And then does anyone recall that a subsequent > > patch broke it all again and we had to wind all the way through the > > process and figure it all out again. Lot's of pain was endured by at > > least a couple developers to make that work. > > That's OK, I foresee (and am currently feeling) more pain, since FG > won't run on my system (dual Athlon system running Core 5). Hasn't ever > worked even in Plib days. Working on the FG threading is something that > interests me since I am looking at such things at work right now. > > > So yes, threading does indeed make sense in certain specific contexts, > > but we need to be really careful about what we do, exactly why we do, > > and what specific peformance benefits we *know* we will get by > > threading some new task. > > > > Curt. > > -- > > Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project > > http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > > <http://baron.flightgear.org/%7Ecurt/> > > http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ http://www.flightgear.org > > Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Flightgear-devel mailing list > >Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > > Cheers > > Lou > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
