Don't use quick sort for small arrays, bubble sort works way faster for small
arrays due to cache coherency. This is what qsort() from libc is doing actually.
We can also experiment unrolling some extra small arrays, for example 3 and 4
element arrays.
This reduces tangent space calculation for dragon from 3.1sec to 2.9sec.
Brings tangent space calculation from 4.6sec to 3.1sec for dragon model in BI.
Cycles is also somewhat faster, but it has other bottlenecks.
Funny thing, using simple `static inline` already gives a lot of speedup here.
That's just answering question whether it's OK to leave decision on what to
inline up to a compiler..
Would be nice to be able to catch this with assert as well, will see what would
be the best way to do this/.\
Need to verify with Mai that this solves crash for her and maybe consider
porting this to 2.79.
Fishy cat benchmark was rendering with wrong shadows. Cause is unclear,
adding printf or rearranging code seems to avoid this issue, possibly a
compiler bug. This reverts the fix and solves the OSL bug elsewhere.
This was needed when we accessed OSL closure memory after shader evaluation,
which could get overwritten by another shader evaluation. But all closures
are immediatley converted to ShaderClosure now, so no longer needed.
While unlikely to have had any serious effects because of limited use, the
previous implementation was not actually atomic due to a data race and
incorrectly coded CAS loop. We also had duplicates of this code in a few
places, it's now been moved to a single location with all other atomic
operations.
We need to make sure we can store all volume closures for all objects in volume
stack. This is a bit tricky to detect what would be the "nestness" level of
volumes so for now use maximum possible stack depth. Might cause some slowdown,
but better to give reliable render output than to fail quickly.
Should be safe for 2.79 after extra eyes.
We should only early out with any hit in BVH traversal if the only visibility
bits used are opaque shadow. Not when opaque shadow is one of multiple bits.
Also pass by value and don't write back now that it is just a hash for seeding
and no longer an LCG state. Together this makes CUDA a tiny bit faster in my
tests, but mainly simplifies code.
Since we started supporting the (Cycles) Material Output old files
stopped working. There is no reason to keep the original Eevee material
otuput anymore.
It includes doversion for old files.
Deleting the old internal audaspace.
Major changes from there are:
- The whole library was refactored to use C++11.
- Many stability and performance improvements.
- Major Python API refactor:
- Most requested: Play self generated sounds using numpy arrays.
- For games: Sound list, random sounds and dynamic music.
- Writing sounds to files.
- Sequencing API.
- Opening sound devices, eg. Jack.
- Ability to choose different OpenAL devices in the user settings.
This implements Arvo's "Stratified sampling of spherical triangles". Similar to how we sample rectangular area lights, this is sampling triangles over their solid angle. It does significantly improve sampling close to the triangle, but doesn't do much for more distant triangles. So I added a simple heuristic to switch between the two methods. Unfortunately, I expect this to add render time in any case, even when it does not make any difference whatsoever. It'll take some benchmarking with various scenes and hardware to estimate how severe the impact is and if it is worth the change.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Subscribers: Vega-core, brecht, SteffenD
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2730
Flag ownership for each index array & vbo's
so we don't have to manually keep track of this and use the right free call.
Instead this can be passed on creation.
See D2676
2.8x branch added bContext arg in many places,
pass eval-context instead since its not simple to reason about what
what nested functions do when they can access and change almost anything.
Also use const to prevent unexpected modifications.
This fixes crash loading files with shadows,
since off-screen buffers use a NULL context for rendering.
