[Mesa-dev] Nuking GL_NV_vertex_program

[Kenneth Graunke]

On 10/10/2012 07:42 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> I think certain versions of SPEC viewperf rely on NV_vertex_program. See http://www.mesa3d.org/viewperf.html
>
> We had some internal hacks to support just the bare minimum of to run some of these tests, but they were not accepted on mesa proper. (There is some bug report on fdo about it).
>
> Jose

Ugh.  I'd forgotten about SPECviewperf.

I guess this begs the question: do we care?

According to that page, viewperf11 is a buggy application (using 
extensions without checking for them), and to get it working properly, 
we'd need to implement two more legacy extensions that aren't necessary 
for anything else.  Or add the minimum required and driconf workarounds 
to falsely advertise them.

In my experience, viewperf is extremely frustrating to work with and 
isn't useful for testing either correctness nor performance.  The only 
reason anyone appears to care is that it's some kind of "industry 
standard" benchmark.  These days, however, it seems more people care 
about glbenchmark.com's benchmarks, 3DMarkMobileES 2.0, and various 
games.  At least on my team, no one is measuring us against SPECviewperf.

Do people still care about viewperf on your side?