Re: [CsMain] [GSoC2010] Status Update + Parallelization of lighter2 code

res <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.crystalspace.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21.07.2010 18:52, Mohit Taneja wrote:
> I also had a discussion with Scott, and it seems that there is quite
> some interest/concerns with the time required to generate lightmaps
> using lighter2. So we planned to change the project deliverables of my
> project and get some of the photon mapping work parallelized using
> openCL. As of now, I have got quite comfortable with the lighter2 code
> base and have even figured out that what portions of code can be
> parallelized, though I don't have a good idea about openCL. But I am
> willing to learn it (my pleasure).

In principle I'm in favor of fast lighting ;)

But what about "simple" parallelization (that is, "just" running stuff
in multiple threads)? If you considered that, what made you prefer OpenCL?

-f.r.

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