[Bf-committers] BGE optimisation tweaks.

[Campbell Barton]

Heres a patch for using floats for Moto in the BGE rather then doubles
patch: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18416&group_id=9&atid=127
Though I didn't test this with optimization flags.

A problem changing this for Moto is that its used for the current
IK's, where floats make some calculations unstable (I'm told).

Eigen2 in the BGE would be good to look into especially if we end up
having this in blender as a dependency.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Benoit Bolsee<benoit.bolsee at online.be> wrote:
> Fast math has little influence on the gameengine because the MT library
> uses double as scarlar type. Fast math speeds up things mostly when you
> work with float and the code is optimized for SSE: you double the speed
> straight away compared to using double as scalar.
> SSE option has little influence on the gameengine since the compiler
> cannot do much about it on general C++ code. You need to write SSE code
> yourself to take most advantage of it. A good example is the Eigen2
> library which implements SSE optimization and cache friendly techniques
> on matrix algebra. When you combine float+fast math+SSE you get an
> enormous speed up, also because the library avoids C++ overhead.
> A nice performance boost could be expected in the GE if we replace MT
> library by Eigen2.
>
> /benoit
>
> On Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 02:23:38 -0700, Mitchell Stokes
> <mogurijin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is the BGE, not Blender itself. When it comes to a game
>> engine, precision isn't as import as speed. However, doing
>> some benchmarking, it seems that the two optimizations did
>> little for frame rates. Here are the results of the default
>> cube scene:
>>
>> Base line (BGE_CXXFLAGS = ['/O2', '/EHsc', '/GR'])
>> Min: 93.9956808054
>> Max: 1032.34567385
>> Average: 923.693778411
>>
>> With "/fp:fast"
>> Min: 88.6841658558
>> Max: 1030.30926569
>> Average: 926.200376381
>>
>> With "/arch:SSE2"
>> Min: 81.7896209204
>> Max: 1027.67823461
>> Average: 925.338981321
>>
>> With "/fp:fast" and "/arch:SSE"
>> Min: 66.4432752384
>> Max: 1040.1976284
>> Average: 920.833553036
>>
>> Operating System: Windows 7 RC
>> Graphics card: NVIDIA Geforce 8600m GT
>> Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz)
>>
>> As one can see, the differences are negligible. When testing
>> I noticed that the average framerate would vary about 5~10fps
>> per run with the same flags/settings.
>>
>> I also did a quick test with the YoFrankie! svn to test some
>> logic, etc. I wasn't as exact when recording results from
>> this, but just from watching the framerate, it looked like
>> there was little difference between the baseline and then
>> with fp:fast and arch:SSE.
>>
>> I encourage people to do their own benchmarks and testing as well!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mitchell Stokes (Moguri)
>>
>>
>
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