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(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday June 13 2015, @05:20PM
Ah, yes, the dreaded GL_FLOAT.
(Score: 2) by Techwolf on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:24AM
As i hobby dev, details please. I am courious.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:31PM
I might have failed to capture what you meant above, but floats can be problematic in game programming. A friend's writing a game right now, and we recently got into a discussion of how to handle trig. We noticed that her engine was only using 4 out of 8 cores on her Bulldozer [wikipedia.org]. It turns out that those only have 4 FPUs (1 for each 2 core block).
A better alternative is to stick to fixed-point or integer only approaches which would scale up to all 8 cores instead of being constrained by the 4 FPUs. As for Intels, floating-point operations are always more expensive than integer operations anyway. Then convert to GL_FLOAT at the last minute to make OpenGL calls.
I still avoid floats in normal business applications in favor of libgpm. The c++11 user-defined types makes using the library a breeze.