Good idea. Let me work on getting a RAM cache working first, then we can update the "load file from disk" code later on.
On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 21:35 +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 02.08.2014 20:30, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: > > The attached patch parallelizes per-vertex normal calculation using > > OpenMP. I see a nearly 4x speedup of model loading on my quad-core > > machine. > > > Hi Andrew, > > Caching the meshes including normals on disk could speed up loading even > further: > - take the model file, > - mesh it (STEP) and calculate normals/other per-vertex/face stuff, > - save in internal binary format on disk along with the hash/name/date > of the source model file. > > On loading: > - first look in the RAM (the file might have been loaded already by > another viewer instance), > - check the disk cache, > - if not found, mesh the model and update the disk cache. > > Cheers, > Tom > -- Andrew Zonenberg PhD student, security group Computer Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://colossus.cs.rpi.edu/~azonenberg/
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