Re: Lavapipe performance

On Thu, 2025-01-30 at 13:49 +0000, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> At one point there was another SW renderer gallium driver by a team
> at Intel that was specifically optimized for huge number of
> primitives with no texturing (like the sort used by https://vtk.org/
> ), but I can't remember its name or find it.

Not super important, but for future reference: You're talking about
OpenSWR, see these links for more info:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/amber/docs/drivers/openswr.rst
https://www.openswr.org/

It didn't really benchmark much better than Llvmpipe, though:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/llvmpipe-swr-xeon

In the end, I think it didn't add enough value to anyone willing to
work on maintaining it.