The Apitrace project came a long way since the first and last time I wrote about it here. One obvious reason is that I don't blog much (has it really been four years already!?). But the main reason is that this project received love from a
Thanks for the update José!This is all understandable and I can relate (maintaining a Qt-based Arduino IDE and failing at making a real community around it despite the interest, because I just could not care enough to make it happen).I woul…
The Apitrace project came a long way since the first and last time I wrote about it here. One obvious reason is that I don't blog much (has it really been four years already!?). But the main reason is that this project received love from a
We found that for many applications a substantial part of the time spent in software vertex processing was being spend in the powf function. So quite a few of us in Tungsten Graphics have been looking into a faster powf. The basic way to co…
We found that for many applications a substantial part of the time spent in software vertex processing was being spend in the powf function. So quite a few of us in Tungsten Graphics have been looking into a faster powf. The basic way to co…
One nice thing about Gallium3D is that it provides a clean cut abstraction of (modern) 3D graphics hardware. The purpose of this abstraction is to allow a single hardware driver to target different graphic APIs (OpenGL, D3D, etc.). That is,…
Gallium3D interfaces don't match any particular graphics API 1 to 1. Likewise, conformance tests end up not doing a good coverage of Gallium3D's interface either: sometimes a single Gallium3D feature is tested in many different tests; somet…
I had a lot of fun playing Neverball's minigolf alter ego, Neverputt, with my brother. Neverball itself was fun, but it was too hard to progress using the mouse. But this changed now that Neverball was ported to the iPod Touch/iPhone, using…
I had a lot of fun playing Neverball's minigolf alter ego, Neverputt, with my brother. Neverball itself was fun, but it was too hard to progress using the mouse. But this changed now that Neverball was ported to the iPod Touch/iPhone, using…
I believe that a call graph showing the total function time (that is, the time spent inside the function and all its descendants) is one of the most useful visualizations of profile data, as it allows to quickly grasp what is the critical c…
I needed a tool to trace Direct3D 8 applications, like Microsoft's defunct D3DSpy or PIX. Unfortunately D3DSpy/PIX is for Direct3D 9 and above only, and no source is available, so I decided to roll my own tool. I started with Michael Koch's…
Space is tight around here in Tokyo. The high population density is reflected on the public transportation system, land price, cultural traditions, house sizes, and ultimately on my desk size. However my daily work implies to interact with