[Mesa-dev] Discussion: C++11 std::future in Mesa

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On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 8:49 PM, ⚛ <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/future
>> http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/async
>>
>> Assumption: Shader compilation will need run on separate thread(s).
>>
>> From a certain perspective, one of the easy ways of removing Mesa shader
>> compilation from the "main" thread would be to use std::future for some
>> fields in struct gl_program (defined in mtypes.h) and in related source
>> code.
>
> Your perspective is completely wrong. First, you need to understand
> why shader compilation speed is a problem for some apps and when you
> do, you'll realize there is only one solution and this is not it. I'll
> let you figure it out by yourself.
>
> tl;dr Understand the problem before you propose a solution.

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