There's another problem with sg_socket.cxx: the timeout value is
hardcoded as 0. This is appropriate for servers as they continuously
poll the socket and never want to wait for clients. But clients
*do* want to wait a few seconds for a server response.
This patch adds some more functionality to the header files and removes
*all* dependencies on SG_HAVE_NATIVE_SGI_COMPILERS in the SimGear code!
[dpm: I had to add some additional SG_USING_STD declarations to make
it compile]
- Removed some old cruft.
- Removed some support for older versions of automake which technically was
correct, but caused the newer automakes to squawk warnings during an
initial sanity check (which isn't done very intelligently.)
NOTE: this fix is technically not correct for older version of automake.
These older version use the variable "INCLUDES" internally and could have
them already set to an important value. That is why we were appending
our values to them. However, newer versions of automake don't set this
value themselves so it is an error to append to a non-existant variable.
We seem to "get away" with overwriting the value on older versions of
automake, but if you have problems, consider upgrading to at least
automake-1.5.
Here are some changes that gave me a significant frame rate increase of about 10 fps with random objects disabled. The interesting thing is that these changes aren't in the main loop but are in tile loader. My guess is that I've reduced the memory footprint just enough to reduce CPU cache misses, though I have no hard evidence of this.
Initially I modified all SGBinObject member functions to pass/return by reference instead of by-value. This gives little or no speed up but allows for some optimizations in fgBinObjLoad(). It is these changes that reduce the number of memory allocations. Needless copying of vectors, and vectors of vectors, can be very memory intensive, especially if they are large.
Anyway I would be interested to see if you get similar results. I would emphasize that the frame rate increase only occurs with random objects disabled. I lose about 10-15 fps on my GF2MX 32MB with random objects, probably a fill-rate limitation or texture memory thing.
Here's a first cut at SGSocket reimplemented using plib.net. I've
maintained the same TCP server behaviour, that is only one client
connection at a time. I don't think it is possible within the current
framework to handle simultaneous clients.
I've also added two simple test programs, tcp_client and tcp_server.
Tbis is a first patch in a series to clean up SimGear by removing
warning messages. Most of them are straight forwared, but in pops.hxx
the compile complaints about "type qualifier is meaningless on return
type". I think it's up to you to decide if you want that part applied.
For each major primative type: points, triangles, fans, and strips, you
can specify an index list of vertices, normals, colors, and texture
coordinates. You can skip any of these you like to save on space.
Note that the work for this has only been done in the file format reader
and writer. The FlightGear loader for instance still needs to have
support for this built in.
This is is one more small step towards runway lighting.
time calculations for an alternate calendar time (i.e. if the application
is being driven from an external source of data.)
Fix a bug in sg_binobj.cxx which disrupted the 'broken down time' globally
for the entire application.
developer will need to build and install these separately if they don't
have packages already installed by their system. See README.metakit and
README.zlib for more details.
As a convenience, pristine tarballs of the metakit and zlib source code
trees are included with the simgear distribution (and cvs.)
- automake-1.4 sets default values for INCLUDES which we can't
overwrite.
- automake-1.5 renames this to DEFAULT_INCLUDES and leaves INCLUDES
open for the developer to use.
Thus for automake-1.4 we are forced to 'append' to INCLUDES and in
automake-1.5 we can just set the value to whatever we like.
Unfortunately, the behaviors of the two versions are mutually
incompatible.
The solution I am committing now works for both versions but
automake-1.5 generates a lot of spurious warning messages that are
annoying, but not fatal.
flightgear, especially when this occurs in a simgear .hxx file. This is
now expressly forbidden, and will cause problems anyways because we now
changed the name to <simgear_config.h> which isn't installed, so you can't
include it in an installed header file.
ehofman