This is called ~3k times per frame in SMO ingame.
My laptop spends ~3ms per frame on allocating and freeing this string.
Let's just stop printing this kind of redundant information.
This patch caches VAO objects instead of re-emiting all pointers per draw call.
Configuring this pointers is known as a fast task, but it yields too many GL
calls. So for better performance, just bind the VAO instead of 16 pointers.
The idea of this cache is to avoid redundant uploads. So we are going
to cache the uploaded buffers within the stream_buffer and just reuse
the old pointers.
The next step is to implement a VBO cache on GPU memory, but for now,
I want to check the overhead of the cache management. Fetching the
buffer over PCI-E should be quite fast.
The std::string generation with its malloc and free requirement
was a noticeable overhead. Also switch to an ordered_map to
avoid the std::hash call. As those maps usually have a size of
two elements, the lookup time shall not matter.
The follow-up to 88597535d6, which
replaces most of the includes in the core header with forward declarations.
This makes it so that if any of the headers the core header was
previously including change, then no one will need to rebuild the bulk
of the core, due to core.h being quite a prevalent inclusion.
This should make turnaround for changes much faster for developers.
core.h is kind of a massive header in terms what it includes within
itself. It includes VFS utilities, kernel headers, file_sys header,
ARM-related headers, etc. This means that changing anything in the
headers included by core.h essentially requires you to rebuild almost
all of core.
Instead, we can modify the System class to use the PImpl idiom, which
allows us to move all of those headers to the cpp file and forward
declare the bulk of the types that would otherwise be included, reducing
compile times. This change specifically only performs the PImpl portion.
Given std::vector is a type with a non-trivial destructor, this
variable cannot be optimized away by the compiler, even if unused.
Because of that, something that was intended to be fairly lightweight,
was actually allocating 32KB and deallocating it at the end of the
function.
Makes the class interface consistent and provides accessors for
obtaining a reference to the memory manager instance.
Given we also return references, this makes our more flimsy uses of
const apparent, given const doesn't propagate through pointers in the
way one would typically expect. This makes our mutable state more
apparent in some places.
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