Update:

I have re-written this (needed a native Linux binary).

You can find my version here:

http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/fo ... php?t=5452

Update: to answer the plea of the pour souls still stuck with windows,
I have ported igiacc. I've also added a link to a binary in the original
post.

Hi Mgix, I've updated the IGI spec here: http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1268&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 Hey Ono, Thanks for taking the time to update the specs, but ... if you happen to have time, a little more is needed :) Because the compiler is free to align and...

SATtva_ wrote:mgix, I have trouble compiling it under amd64
Any assumptions or prerequisites I failed to met?

No, I just wrote my post too hastily.

The correct command line to compile should read 'g++' instead of 'gcc'.

I'll go correct my post now.

Cheers

PureSpider wrote:Does this compile on windows?

Now it does.

I have hit a scalability glass ceiling with the current Indigo network rendering model for (sadly, master explodes past ~600 slaves, and even when it doesn't, it becomes the bottleneck). This has reduced me to have each "slave" dump IGIs to local disk, collect them via scp and "manually" accumulate ...

yeah, I know what you mean by large SIMD widths. Since i don't have an appropriate design for doing such SIMD computations in Indigo currently, VM speed and overhead is an issue though. Okay. I did have a look at LLVM, and it looks nice. Sadly it won't compile in Visual Studio however, and I don't ...

Yup, I tried out Lua, in particular LuaJIT, which extends the Lua VM with a JIT compiler. Lua does indeed have a nice, lightweight, and low overhead VM. The JIT does work pretty well, at least for simple arithmetical code. However I found the vector/composite structure handling of Lua to be quite s...

Borgleader wrote:Wan't LUA the language used by WoW-addon coders?

LUA is used in a lot of games, both as an add-on
language and as an internal scripting glue language.

One of the reasons for that is that is very easy
to interface it with native C routines.

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