This commit adds the basic infrastructure for paths.
The public APIs consists of GskPath, GskPathPoint and
GskPathBuilder.
GskPath is a data structure for paths that consists
of contours, which in turn might contain Bézier curves.
The Bezier data structure is inspired by Skia, with separate
arrays for points and operations. One advantage of this
arrangement is that start and end points are shared
between adjacent curves.
A GskPathPoint represents a point on a path, which can
be queried for various properties.
GskPathBuilder is an auxiliary builder object for paths.
When a GdkMemoryFormat is not supported natively and there's
postprocessing required, add a way to mark a VulkanImage as such via the
new postprocess flags.
Also allow texting such iamges only with new_for_upload() and detect
when that is the case and then run a postprocessing step that converts
that image to a suitable format.
This is done with a new "convert" shader/op.
This now supports all formats natively, no conversions happen on the CPU
anymore (unless the GPU is old).
This op queues a download of an image. The image will only be available
once the commands finished executing, so it requires waiting for the
render to finish, which makes the API a bit awkward.
Included is also a download_png_op() useful for debugging.
The op emits a vkCmdClearAttachments() with a given color. That can be
used with color nodes that are pixel-aligned and opaque to significantly
speed up rendering when the window background is a solid color.
However, currently this fails a bit outside of fullscreen when rounded
clip rectangles are in use to draw rounded corners.
This is a rudimentary - but working - port.
Glyph uploads are still using the old machinery, a bunch of functions
still exist that probably aren't necessary anymore and each glyph emits
its own node.
This will need to be improved in further commits.
This shader is an updated version of the mask shader, but I want to use
the mask name for the mask node and that's a different functionality.
Also, add an operation for it and partially implement the mask node
using it, so we can test that this shader works.
Replacing the shader used for text rendering is the next step.
The benefit here is that we can now properly cross-fade when one of
start/end is fully clipped out by just replacing it with an opacity op
for the other.
This was not possible with the old way we did things.
Instead of creating a pipeline GObject, just ask for the VkPipeline.
And instead of having the Op handle it, just let the renderpass look
up/create the relevant pipeline while creating commands so that it can
insert vkCmdBindPipeline calls as-needed.
Have a resource path => vkShaderModule hash table instead of doing fancy
custom objects.
A benefit is that shader modules are now shared between all renderers
and pipelines.
GskVulkanOp is meant to be a proper abstraction of operations
the Vulkan renderer will be doing.
For now it's an atrocious clunky piece of junk wedged into the
renderpass codebase.
It's so temporary that I didn't even adjust indentation of the code.
We weren't looking in the build dir for generated files.
Actually make sure that we look in the build dir *first*, otherwise
glib-compile-resources will still use the wrong files.
In certain scenarios, address the issue where gnome.compile_resources
fails to transmit the present source directory. This is most notably
visible with MSBuild.
We can't use this flag for any code that may get run
outside the __builtin_cpu_supports() check, and meson
doesn't allow per-file cflags. So we have to split this
code off into its own static library.
Use an IFUNC resolver to determine whether we can use
intrinsics for FP16 conversion. This requires the functions
to be no longer inline.
Sadly, it turns out that __builtin_cpu_supports ("f16c")
doesn't compile on the systems where we want it to prevent
us from getting a SIGILL at runtime.
This reduces the size of our Vertex struct from
48 to 32 bytes. It would be nicer if we could store
the colors in fp16 format in the rendernodes, and
avoid conversion here. But this is still good.
Move the resources of each renderer to its subdirectory.
We've previously done that for the ngl renderer, but it
is better to be consistent and do it for all the renderers.
If cairo is a subproject, it's not necessarily installed when gtk
is built. In the build tree, libcairo-script-interpreter is not stored
in the same directory as other cairo libraries.
Recognize a common pattern: A rounded clip with
a color node, followed by a border node, with the
same outline. This is what CSS backgrounds frequently
produce, and we can render it more efficiently with
a combined shader.
We may want to change the interface between the
shaders and the renderer for ngl, and therefore,
sharing the shaders between gl and ngl will not
be practical, going forward.
The primary goal here was to cleanup the current GL renderer to make
maintenance easier going forward. Furthermore, it tracks state to allow
us to implement more advanced renderer features going forward.
Reordering
This renderer will reorder batches by render target to reduce the number
of times render targets are changed.
In the future, we could also reorder by program within the render target
if we can determine that vertices do not overlap.
Uniform Snapshots
To allow for reordering of batches all uniforms need to be tracked for
the programs. This allows us to create the full uniform state when the
batch has been moved into a new position.
Some care was taken as it can be performance sensitive.
Attachment Snapshots
Similar to uniform snapshots, we need to know all of the texture
attachments so that we can rebind them when necessary.
Render Jobs
To help isolate the process of creating GL commands from the renderer
abstraction a render job abstraction was added. This could be extended
in the future if we decided to do tiling.
Command Queue
Render jobs create batches using the command queue. The command queue
will snapshot uniform and attachment state so that it can reorder
batches right before executing them.
Currently, the only reordering done is to ensure that we only visit
each render target once. We could extend this by tracking vertices,
attachments, and others.
This code currently uses an inline array helper to reduce overhead
from GArray which was showing up on profiles. It could be changed to
use GdkArray without too much work, but had roughly double the
instructions. Cycle counts have not yet been determined.
GLSL Programs
This was simplified to use XMACROS so that we can just extend one file
(gskglprograms.defs) instead of multiple places. The programs are added
as fields in the driver for easy access.
Driver
The driver manages textures, render targets, access to atlases,
programs, and more. There is one driver per display, by using the
shared GL context.
Some work could be done here to batch uploads so that we make fewer
calls to upload when sending icon theme data to the GPU. We'd need
to keep a copy of the atlas data for such purposes.
