[Mesa-dev] [Bug 61412] glCallLists/glBitmap calls slow on Intel implementation of Mesa drivers

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61412

Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?  I believe that Eric's proposal
> > was for you to change the way the application is rendering.  I'm not sure
> > how this has any affect on end-users troubleshooting things.
> Seriously I feel like I'm a canary, repeating the same tune over and over.
> I can't rely on a texture based font stored in the game directory, or even
> the truetype/freetype fonts (except maybe Ubuntu/fixed on Linux and Arial on
> Windows) because I am catering for people who do weird stuff to their
> computers and files go missing mysteriously.  So instead I rely on something
> I know is there and if its not, then their system is completely buggered.
> 
> > I'm assuming that you have fonts stored on disk as bitmap (1-bit per pixel)
> > images, and that's why you're mentioning filesystems.  You can use this data
> > as a texture by using the GL_PIXEL_MAP_I_TO_A table.  The data is sent to
> > glTexImage2D like:
> > 
> >     glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, width, height, 0,
> >                  GL_ALPHA4, GL_COLOR_INDEX, GL_BITMAP, pixels);
> > 
> > Configure the GL 1.2 texture combiners and blend mode to blend the font the
> > way you want:
> > 
> >     glTexEnvi(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_REPLACE);
> >     glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ZERO);
> >     glBlendEquation(GL_FUNC_ADD);
> > 
> > Then draw a single quad in the color you want the font to be:
> > 
> >     glColor3f(1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
> >     glBegin(GL_QUADS);  // or your favorite way to draw
> >     glTexCoord2f(...);  // location of the character in the atlas
> >     glVertex2f(...);
> >     ...
> >     glEnd();
> > 
> > You could even build those calls into display lists (as you currently do
> > with the glBitmap calls) to keep the changes isolated from the reset of your
> > code.
> > 
> > Excluding the call to glBlendEquation, that will work on every OpenGL
> > implementation since GL 1.1, and it will probably be faster than glBitmap on
> > every GL implementation since the data doesn't need to be re-uploaded for
> > each drawing operation.
> I know how to do all of this, again I do NOT have a font texture file, I
> rely on system installed fonts because if they aren't there, then the system
> is buggered to hell.

You're repeating my point, and that's confusing.  It doesn't matter how your
fonts are stored.  You can send *exactly the same bits* into OpenGL as a
texture or a bitmap.

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