Keith Whitwell wrote:
>
> Brian Paul wrote:
> >
> > I'm posting the following on behalf of Dave Wilkinson, who's associated
> > with cosource.com, an organization to provide funding for free software
> > projects.
> >
> > PIII optimizations for Mesa would be great. I have a few contacts at
> > Intel so getting technical information shouldn't be too hard. I think
> > we just need to find someone with (1) Intel assembly experience, (2)
> > a PIII system, and (3) free time.
> >
>
> As I also post on their notice board:
>
> For q3, the bulk of processing can be done inside the part of mesa which is
> device specific. This is the case with the current FX driver, but not with
> any
> other driver.
>
> The point is that this task is fairly specific to the hardware used to
> measure
> performance, and should be specified as such. Thus 'Improve q3 by 10% on
> 3dfx
> voodoo-2' is quite different to the same task on Matrox g200.
>
> There is still some shared code - state management and so forth - and a
> very talented individual might squeeze 10% overall out of that.
But the hooks are in place in the core code to implement SSE-optimized
vertex transformation code. That's what I'd like to see done.
Does the 3Dfx driver now implement that code in the driver itself?
-Brian
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