Summer of Code applicant with ambition!

[Stefan Dösinger]

Hi,

I think writing (yet another) D3D benchmark isn't going to help a lot, there 
are already numerous benchmarks out there.

I have built a very hacky set of cxtest and php scripts that run a bunch of 
benchmarks and games(3DMark, Half Life 2, UT 2004, Team Fortress), store the 
results on a server and generate some graphs with gnuplot. Extending this and 
making it easier for others to run would be more useful than implementing 
another benchmark.

If you want to get familiar with the D3D code writing tests is a good start. 
If you want to implement some small new functionality, maybe Nvidia's Depths 
Bound extension( NVDB, see http://aras-p.info/texts/D3D9GPUHacks.html ) might 
be a possible weekend project.

Btw, the above webpage might have some other d3d9 "extensions" that are more 
work could be suitable for Gsoc projects, maybe DF16, DF24, INTZ, RAWZ, NULL 
and ATOC.

Optimizing wined3d is certainly an idea as well, but it's not an easy task. 
We're beyond the point where you can get reasonable performance gains from 
simply fixing a loop or two. Some performance issues are known bugs(sRGB 
switching, sRGB write correction in HW, thread synchronization), others 
require tedious debugging to find out what specific 3D drivers don't like about 
our GL calls.