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.
This OpenGL call synchronize the worker thread of the nvidia blob.
It can be verified on linux with the __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 environment variable.
Those errors should not happen on tested drivers.
It was used as a workaround for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94148
Markus Wick