For the most part, it's just refactoring the code so the plane creation and
testing are in separate functions, but there is one important difference:
the plane test now checks only the two points on either side of the point
used to create the plane.
Because the portal winding is guaranteed to be convex and planar, if both
points are on the plane, all points are, and if neither point is behind the
plane, no points are.a
This shaved about 5 seconds off the level 4 run using 4 threads (~198s to
~193s) and about 12s from the single threaded run (~682s to ~670s (hmm,
gained some time in recent changes)).
This reverts commit 1ea79e8626.
Conflicts:
tools/qfvis/include/vis.h
tools/qfvis/source/flow.c
I've decided to do reentrant versions of the set allocators and I didn't
particularly like the invasiveness of allocating sets this way.
The old variable names were confusing ("target" winding comes from
"portal"?), and the comments were from when I really didn't understand
concepts like separating planes. While they weren't wrong, they were quite
inadequate and I want to write new ones.
This bypasses set_new, but completely removes the use of the global lock
from within RecursiveClusterFlow. This seems to give a small speedup: 203
seconds threaded.
This was testing an idea I had to remove the plane flips. It seems to have
been good for the initial plane orientation, but was a slight slowdown for
the pass-portal test. However, this makes the code a little easier to work
with for my idea on improving the algorithm itself.
Since the stack structure in the thread data is a linked list, move the
stack blocks off the program stack and into malloced memory. More
importantly, when the stack block is allocated, the mightsee working set is
allocated too, and as neither are freed, this greatly reduces contention
for the lock. Also, because the memory is kept, single threaded time for
gmsp3v2 dropped from 695s to 670s. Threaded is now about 207s (down from
350).
While using set operators was clearer, it was rather expensive (about 25s
for gmsp3v2). qfvis now completes the map in about 695s (single threaded).
About 15s faster than tyr for the same conditions (1 thread, level 4).
This is the second part of the separator search optimization from tyrutils
vis. With this, qfvis is getting close to tyrutils vis when
running single threaded (qfvis is suffering some nasty thread contention
and thus can't get below about 350 seconds with 4 threads). 808s vs 707s.
Interesting, it makes very little (maybe faster) difference to find all the
separators for levels 3 and 4. This might be due to the higher levels using
most of the planes to fully clip source away. Anyway, it makes the code a
little clearer (one function, one task).
I think the reason I didn't think of that when I tried to improve qfvis's
performance many years ago is I just simply did not understand
ClipToSeparators. However, the difference caching the separators makes is
phenomenal. Before the change, single threaded qfvis would get stuck on one
particular portal for at least a day (I gave up waiting), but now even a
debug build will complete gmsp3v2.bsp in less than 12 minutes (4 threads on
my quad-core). And that's at level 2! Getting stuck for a day was at level
0.
While noticeably slower than the previous expanded set manipulation code,
this is much easier to read. I can worry about optimizing the set code when
I get qfvis behaving better.
macro) and use it instead of VectorCompare in the map tools. This (and, it
seems, RINT) fixes qfbsp on spc. Also, jump /all/ entities that get hit
by the filler in qfbsp
