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[Impeller] Reduce overhead of rectangle and oval drawing with a shape buffer. #116165
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With http://flutter.dev/go/impeller-geometry under way, we can create specialized geometry factories and avoid using libtess for common shapes. But we can reduce overhead even further by uploading one immutable device buffer containing triangle strip vertex data for a simple square and a few circle LODs, which lasts for the lifetime of the Impeller Entities context.
Since the geometry factories are also responsible for producing the vertex transform for the geometry, this would allow us to avoid generating/uploading any vertex data for all rectangles and ovals.
At the moment, this is only feasible when generating the Position-only buffer, but the impact of this can expand to include PositionColor and PositionUV cases once we have a solution for customizing vertex layouts at runtime (as sourcing attributes from multiple distinct buffers simultaneously is allowed on all backends).
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jonahwilliams commentedon May 20, 2024
I think we've pretty well slimmed down the cost of drawing most primitives today. I don't think we need shape buffers for common cases, but we can always explore this in the future.
github-actions commentedon Jun 3, 2024
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