[Mesa-dev] Upcoming Mesa 7.9.1 and 7.10 releases

[Mathias Fröhlich]

Hi,

On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 02:27:41 Ian Romanick wrote:
> 7.10 list:
> 
> commit b3d2ec9942303d1d03e28a25b030eb060415abfb
> Author: Mathias Fröhlich <Mathias.Froehlich at web.de>
> Date:   Sun Oct 17 18:16:30 2010 +0200
> 
>     vbo: Avoid the copy to current in dlists if not required.
> 
>     The current state is allowed to be undefined past DrawElements et al.
>     Consequently omit that copying at least in the display list code.
>     This pays us some percents performance.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>

This is a performance improovement for a special use case. The typical 
OpenSceneGraph application will see a few percent less cpu usage in the draw 
path.
It should not harm, but given that, this does not fix any bug, I would think 
that it is not important enough for a release branch.

Greetings

Mathias