-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Luca Barbieri wrote: > That said, the idea of using a complex language like GLSL as the API > interface is one of the usual bad design decisions of OpenGL (since, > for instance, it essentially guarantees incompatibilities, and forces > everyone implementing it do a lot of unnecessary work), and it would > be much better if OpenGL just specified a binary bytecode format > (like, say, Direct3D 11), but unfortunately this is what the current > situation is.
The mistakes of D3D again rear their ugly head. Every D3D driver has to attempt to reverse engineer the assembly code that it is given to do real optimization. It make the driver (and the driver writer) do orders of magnitude more work. The only people that it helps are people like S3 or XGI that don't have a budget to hire a full driver team. For everyone else it just plain sucks. The incompatibilities are largely because we have *no* conformance tests for anything past OpenGL 1.2. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyIBe8ACgkQX1gOwKyEAw99HQCcCwHptAw3kB42otxGzKJqp2ky 5tIAoJpUWqu/tYV2YFtRaVUGdjrYkPBI =WCid -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
