[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] winsys/amdgpu: add a fast exit path into amdgpu_cs_add_buffer

[Marek Olšák]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Just a note about the future of Mesa:
>
> It is likely that optimizing Mesa will lead you (Marek) to consider
> generative programming some years into the future:
>
> Optimal code is basically a form of efficient adaptation to current
> circumstances. Generating the optimal code by hand can be
> inefficient/tedious and it might be possible to generate some of it by
> a program. The generator reads in C/C++/other code&data and outputs
> optimized C/C++ code containing the necessary guards, data parsers,
> specialized data structures, etc. The machine-generated code can be an
> order of magnitude larger than the input to the generator - which is
> one of the main reasons generative programming increases programmer
> productivity in the long term.
>
> The generator itself can be written in any programming language you
> prefer (although personally I only recommend a compiled language with
> static types).

If it were so simple, somebody would have done it already.

Marek