Re: [Enigma-devel] Maemo Port for Nokia Internet Tablets - Performance

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Pipeline wrote:
> > Patch r1046 has just been a preliminary experiment to check the
> > influence. I mailed yesterday the draft concept of a complete laser
> > light reengineering. It mainly addresses the large number of
> > inconsistencies in the current gaming logic concerning the laser light
> > (see bug reports #11112, #9475,...). But of course it addresses the
> > inefficiency of the laser beam drawing, too. You are right in your
> > assumption that the current implementation redraws all grids with a
> > laser beam on it on every frame with single change of laser light
> > anywhere. I plan to redraw just those grids where the light did change.
> > This should speed up the redraw on "Magic Triangle" by another factor of
> > 3 - 4.
>
> The r1046 patch improved performance in this level at least 300% so, yes 
> even as a preliminary experiment, your algorithm "magic" is much 
> appreciated :)  There is a gliimpse of future playability... also on 
> every cycle which the block makes, when the lasers are triggered off, 
> the fps rises to 60fps for that brief second and then back down to 3fps 
> or so.

r1050 contains the performance tuning in a preliminary not cleaned up 
way. But it should redraw only modified beams and I expect no further 
speedup with later revisions.

Could a Maemo user please check the behaviour of r1050 with "Magic Triangle"

Greets,

Ronald