On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not convinced that supporting all types is impossible or >> even that technically expensive in extra lines of code. I still think >> we should do it. > > I'm willing to keep an open mind about this, but I think we should > tackle it as a separate issue, design reviewed and code reviewed > separately, and not burden Stefan with solving it.
Agreed. > My recommendation is: > > 1. Have Stefan submit his pull request now. > > 2. In the next few days, consider the issue of restricting IBA > functions to 3 or 4 common buffer types, and rejecting the rest. > It's a small change (just deleting some lines from several switch > statements) if we decide to go this route. > > 3. After that, if somebody (not Stefan, who has other fish to fry!) > wants to propose or prototype a more detailed design for restoring IBA > functionality to handle all types (common types fast with > specialization, the rest slow with some general mechanism), we can > consider the pros and cons of that method. Works for me. ~Chris _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
