Am Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:01:43 +
schrieb ZILtoid1991 ziltoidtheomnic...@gmail.com:
While I technically finished the 0.2 version of my graphics
engine which has a reasonable speed at low internal resolutions
and with only a couple of sprites, but it still gets bottlenecked
a lot. First I'll throw out the top-down determination
algorhythm as it requires constant memory paging (alrought it
made much more sense when the engine was full OO and even slower).
Instead I'll use a overwriting (bottom-up) method. It still
needs constant updates and I have to remove the per sprite
transparency key and use a per layer key, however it requires
much less paging, and still have the ability of unbound layer
numbers and sprite count with unbound sizes.
I also came up with the idea of reading slices out from the
graphical elements to potentially speed up the process a bit,
especially as the custom bitmaps it uses are 16bit for palette
operations, so per pixel read operations would waste a portion of
memory bus. So should I write a method for the bitmap class which
gets a line from it? (an array slice as it contains the data in a
single 1D array to avoid jagged arrays on a future expansion for
a scaler) And can I write an array slice at a position of an
array? (to reduce writeback calls)
I don't get the whole picture, but an array slice is just a
pointer and a length, so it doesn't access the pixels at all.
If you know you will be going over the whole scanline, by all
means get an array slice (or a C style raw pointer) and
process it in as big chunks as possible. For example
copying with 128-bit SSE registers will be much faster than
16-bit ushorts. (SSE4 also offers a table lookup function.)
Beyond that - since it is a gfx engine - why not use OpenGL
and drop the palette lookup altogether ?
--
Marco
