[ODE] Opcode mesh format

Erwin de Vries erwin at vo.com
Sat Jul 12 09:39:01 2003


> First of all, i've compiled ODE 0.039 + OPCODE without any noticable
problem (using single precision for ODE, and -O1 only for OPCODE) with gcc
3.2.2 (mdk9.1)
> My question is about mesh format in OPCODE:
> dGeomTriMeshDataBuildSimple() works with indexed mesh, as I work with
"linear" ones.
> Will i get *performance* impact (memory's not a problem) if i only
"unroll" my mesh into OPCODE structs ?

I suspect the performance loss to be minimal. I think it only results in
more cache misses etc. A good question would be.. why would you want this?

Erwin