It's Getting Close Whether The OpenGL On-Disk Shader Cache Will Happen For Mesa 17.0

[dungeon]

number one is multithreaded driver.

Both are number one as both are needed according to what blob drivers do for years Of course both are not GL specification requirement same as performance is not any requirement too

They are both so called performance enhancement features, so we are free to even invent something else there... but i am not sure what is that something better

[pal666]

They are both so called performance enhancement features

on-disk cache is only enhancement for first shader loading on non-first run of executable. for all other shader loadings it brings no performance enhancements. it could save you some time per application run, multithreaded driver could make unplayable game playable

[pal666]

I strongly suspect an on disk shader cache would take far less time to implement and have a large immediate benefit.

it will have zero benefit when you already have compiled shader in memory

[SaucyJack]

it will have zero benefit when you already have compiled shader in memory

That makes zero sense. The point of an on disk cache is to get the shader to memory faster without needing to spend minutes compiling every time you play.

[pal666]

That makes zero sense. The point of an on disk cache is to get the shader to memory faster without needing to spend minutes compiling every time you play.

that is because you are nonseniscal. not every time you play, but every time you run an app. i will happily wait minutes, then play hours with two times higher fps due to multithreaded driver. i don't care how much faster i can start game if it is nonplayable due to low fps.

[cj.wijtmans]

that is because you are nonseniscal. not every time you play, but every time you run an app. i will happily wait minutes, then play hours with two times higher fps due to multithreaded driver. i don't care how much faster i can start game if it is nonplayable due to low fps.

it wont impact your performance... first of all files are cached in memory by kernel. not sure if they keeping the memory cache is even worth it.