OpenSWR High Performance Software Rasterizer Lands In Mesa

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenSWR High Performance Software Rasterizer Lands In Mesa

Intel's OpenSWR high-performance software rasterizer that's an alternative to LLVMpipe has landed in mainline Mesa...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenSWR-Lands-In-Mesa

[microcode]

By the way, <strike>OpenSWR (in one form or another) has been in development since 1998, when I was one year old</strike>. Merging it into Mesa is pretty landmark.

EDIT: I didn't look carefully, seems that's just when Brian started using revision control for Mesa.

[boxie]

...in development since 1998, when I was one year old...

great way to make people feel old! (I finished high school in '97)

[tigerroast]

great way to make people feel old! (I finished high school in '97)

The Lion King came out 22 years ago.

[Azpegath]

What is the OpenGL status of it?

[Azpegath]

The Lion King came out 22 years ago.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_to_make_one_feel_old

[haagch]

Hm, with compiling with gcc 5.3.0 and for llvm-svn 262307 I get

./../rasterizer/jitter/blend_jit.cpp:720:9: error: reference to 'FunctionPassManager' is ambiguous

and

./../rasterizer/jitter/blend_jit.cpp:721:9: error: 'passes' was not declared in this scope

Looks like it needs some work.

[Pontostroy]

does not build on opensuse

http://pastebin.com/n2WZpPQG

[bug77]

great way to make people feel old! (I finished high school in '97)

Great way to make people feel old! (I finished high school before '97).

[torowley]

By the way, OpenSWR (in one form or another) has been in development since 1998, when I was one year old. Merging it into Mesa is pretty landmark.

While the idea of a software rasterizer is quite old (for example the Mesa project itself, which had its origin back in 1998), the OpenSWR rasterizer and driver are much younger than that.