From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id FAA12134; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:19:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA12394 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:19:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i593JjEV002677 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 05:19:46 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp114-11.lns1.syd3.internode.on.net [150.101.114.11]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i593JgHY099629; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:49:42 +0930 (CST) Subject: RE: [Caml-list] 32 bit floats, SSE instructions From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: "Brandon J. Van Every" Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1086751181.16811.941.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 09 Jun 2004 13:19:41 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40C681D1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 floats:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 brandon:99 specifics:01 rigth:01 pipelines:01 'real:01 interfacing:01 9660:01 glebe:01 nsw:01 snail:02 checkout:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:50, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > I'm feeling mentally challenged on specifics rigth now. Generally > speaking, 3D graphics problems are pipelines with N stages you might > turn on or off. This creates 2^N path possibilities. Often you'd like > to coalesce the operations at the various stages. What you need here is a partial evaluator. Getting one that *also* has 'real world' interfacing AND supports very low level code is not going to be so easy: macro processors are the best available tool with all 3 properties that I know of :( -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners