Structuring Applications for Performance
Interactive graphics applications are performance sensitive, perhaps more sensitive than any other type of application. A design application can be very interactive at a redraw rate of 72 frames per second (fps), difficult to operate at 20 fps, and unusable at 5 fps. Tuning graphics applications to maximize their performance is important. Even with high-performance hardware, application performance can vary by multiple orders of magnitude, depending on how well the application is designed and tuned for performance. This is because a graphics pipeline must support such a wide mixture of possible command and data sequences (often called “paths”) that it’s impossible to optimize an implementation ...
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