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Re: Survey: Do You Support Framebuffers and/or Non-Po2 [RERU

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 5:51 am
by Xgoff
TechnoCat wrote:
veethree wrote:po3 framebuffers up to 2187x2187.
That sounds very wasteful and inefficient of your driver developers to do.
i'm still puzzled over what relevance "power of 3" has to graphics hardware

anyway i support all 3 :>

Re: Survey: Do You Support Framebuffers and/or Non-Po2 [RERU

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:09 pm
by TechnoCat
veethree wrote:
TechnoCat wrote:
veethree wrote:po3 framebuffers up to 2187x2187.
That sounds very wasteful and inefficient of your driver developers to do.
Why's that?
It is wasteful because O(n^2) < O(n^3). Also, power of 2 is used because memory spaces are usually (always?) worded by powers of 2's.

Re: Survey: Do You Support Framebuffers and/or Non-Po2 [RERU

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 1:18 pm
by Nixola
That's not a driver developer's idea, it's a test writer's idea