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- Subject: D3DCREATE_FPU_PRESERVE
- From: "Richard Ranft" <rranft@...>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:36:02 -0700
> D3DCREATE_FPU_PRESERVE correctly preserves the FPU state. Without it,
> the state is not preserved.
>
> One is correct, the other is not. Who cares about the performance
> impact.
If it's a 30% reduction in performance I bet you'd care. Microsoft wouldn't
have mentioned it if it had not been an issue at some point.
As far as "correct" goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat. I'm
certain that with a little creative assembly (maybe not that drastic, since
Luiz mentioned another alternative) the FPU state can be pushed and popped
around the Lua VM process, the D3D render/math processing, or both.
It is the simplest fix, no doubt about it. And if it's <1% we're talking
about in almost all cases then that's awesome. I'd just hate to find out
that it's 10% or more in a significant portion of cases on reasonably
popular hardware....
Richard
