[Bf-committers] MSVC official builds, optimisation and render errors

[Eugene Reilly]

Hey Matt/Simon,

Given my interest in optimizing on MSVC, I just tried the test file
Matt posted using one of my own MSVC8 heavily optimized builds and got
the following [1].  The dramatic black dots that I get in an official
build [2] don't show up.  So if my builds using MSVC8 have somehow
resolved this issue I am betting that other prjects in the official
MSVC build might need the addition of /fp:fast.

Simon, the render project is the only one you have using fp:fast
right?  Have you tried it on more projects to see if that helps?  Like
on the blender project?

[1] http://www.geneome.net/images/dottest.jpg
[2] http://www.geneome.net/images/baddottest.jpg

Matt Ebb wrote:
> Hi Simon, I just tried to verify this problem myself and at least with
> the RC1 build on blender.org <http://blender.org>, the problem still
> exists.
>
> I'm not sure whether the version on the blender.org
> <http://blender.org> server has been updated or not with your
> compilation changes, so I tried to download it from the links below,
> but they don't seem to be working.
>
> I've put a simplified test file in the tracker here:
> https://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/125/6861/4483/ray_blackdots.blend
>
> cheers
>
> Matt
>