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).
set_bits_t is now 64 bits for x86_64 machines (in linux, anyway). This gave
qfvis a huge speed boost: from ~815s to ~720s.
Also, expose some of the set internals so custom set operators can be
created.
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 had forgotten to skip the refined tests when the sphere was entirely on
the relevant side of the plane. Now BasePortalVis for gmsp3v2 takes 11s on
my machine (it was 13 with the previous optimization and 15.9 before that).
Also, write some comments describing how BasePortalVis works.
Representing the side of the plane on which the sphere lies is much more
useful as more complicated tests can be done using just the one call.
-1: the sphere is entirely on the back side of the plane
0: the sphere is intersecting the plane
1: the sphere is entirely on the front side of the plane
Now we can get tight (<1e-6 * radius_squared error) bounding spheres. More
importantly (for qfvis, anyway) very quickly: 1.7Mspheres/second for a 5
point cloud on my 2.33GHz Core 2 :)
It "works" for lines, triangles and tetrahedrons. For lines and triangles,
it gives the barycentric coordinates of the perpendicular projection of the
point onto to features. Only tetrahedrons are guaranteed to reproduce the
original point.
It was supposed to be 2, but for some reason I neglected to set it when I
set up the options parsing. However, level 4 is the standard for production
maps, and it happens to be faster than level 2 (at least for gmsp3v2.bsp)
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.
Rather than prefixing free_ to the supplied name, suffix _freelist to the
supplied name. The biggest advantage of this is it allows the free-list to
be a structure member. It also cleans up the name-space a little.
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.
I'd forgotten that ED_ConvertToPlist mangled light into light_lev and
single component angle values into a vector. This fixes much of the
breakage in qflight (but not the light levels)
Bill Currie