This patch replaces / redoes the entire MeshExtractors system.
Although they were useful and facilitated the addition of new buffers, they made it difficult to control the threads and added a lot of threading overhead.
Part of the problem was in traversing the same loop type in different threads. The concurrent access of the BMesh Elements slowed the reading.
This patch simplifies the use of threads by merging all the old callbacks from the extracts into a single series of iteration functions.
The type of extraction can be chosen using flags.
This optimized the process by around 34%.
Initial idea and implementation By @mano-wii.
Fine-tuning, cleanup by @atmind.
MASTER:
large_mesh_editing:
- rdata 9ms iter 50ms (frame 155ms)
- Average: 6.462874 FPS
PATCH:
large_mesh_editing:
- rdata 9ms iter 34ms (frame 136ms)
- Average: 7.379491 FPS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11425
This patch adds relatively small changes to the curve draw
cache implementation in order to draw the curve data in the
viewport. The dependency graph iterator is also modified
so that it iterates over the curve geometry component, which
is presented to users as `Curve` data with a pointer to the
`CurveEval`
The idea with the spline data type in geometry nodes is that
curve data itself is only the control points, and any evaluated
data with faces is a mesh. That is mostly expected elsewhere in
Blender anyway. This means it's only necessary to implement
wire edge drawing of `CurveEval` data.
Adding a `CurveEval` pointer to `Curve` is in line with changes
I'd like to make in the future like using `CurveEval` in more places
such as edit mode.
An alternate solution involves converting the curve wire data
to a mesh, however, that requires copying all of the data, and
since avoiding it is rather simple and is in-line with future plans
anyway, I think doing it this way is better.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11351
I'd like to use this file to draw curves from geometry nodes, which
would otherwise require implementing a C API. The changes in this
commit are minimal, mostly just casts and changing to nullptr.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11350