On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0...@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 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev