Re: Painter Cache [was:] Generic Polyhedron Primitives

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Timothy M. Shead<tshead@...> wrote:
>> Since these are performance-related changes instead of features, can they
>> wait until after 0.8?  I'd like to give them my full attention, but I'm also
>> pretty darned anxious to get 0.8 out the door ...
>
> Well, the SDS painter needs to be restored, and I much prefer using
> the new cache system for that. It's working for the point painter now,
> which I wanted to use as a simple test case. See
>
> http://code.google.com/p/k3d-bart/source/diff?spec=svn7f208d297154b43e27939f9d697295c89196d915&old=d1c90cf9692379b88337cc0a0143df791884b76d&r=7f208d297154b43e27939f9d697295c89196d915&format=side&path=%2Fmodules%2Fadvanced_opengl_painters%2Fvbo_point_painter.cpp
>
> for the simplification so far. Most notably (aside from what's on the
> wiki), I got rid of the selection cache, which always was something I
> disliked. I will use this as the basis for the restored SDS painter,
> any further optimizations of the system (both performance-wise and
> from a design standpoint) can be done after 0.8.
>
> I'm now working on getting CatmullClark running again, the painter
> should be relatively easy after that.
>
> Cheers,
>