@alloc_ok with its reason on what is made once per resource and kept (textures, programs, samplers,
views, layouts, memory blocks, the pipeline cache in gvk_pipe_build), on resize and swapchain
remakes, on screenshots and dumps, on a world being set up (streams, layers, water, post, bakes), on
loads (gltf_load, skin_load, tex_load*, png_decode, fonts) and on R3D_PROF / drawstats.
gltf_cached's hit path is its own and makes nothing; the miss (gltf_cached_load) is declared.
m4_look_at (now over m4_look_at_xyz) and m4_inverse work on scalars, and cam_update makes no scratch.
Left: lazy first-use starts, error and debug prints, and scratch made and freed each call (churn,
plan 25.3). Compiled (steady, and ludic deps over the game).
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A freed texture or buffer id goes on a spare list the next one takes; tex_note_size keeps sizes by id.
model_release frees prims, meshes, material names, the skin and leaves gltf_cached. actor_release
takes an actor off the stage and actor_new reuses its record (ECS's Things come and go all day).
steady.ludic: an actor round at 0 bytes over 2000.
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- Json.free_all (value_free_all): a parsed tree's nodes, lists and strings. render3d frees each
glTF document that way at the next load; the names kept out of it are copies (a primitive's
material, a skin's joints, an animation clip's name in ludic.anim) - a model's strings were
~640 KB left behind per load
- jp_number made a digits list per decimal in a document and never freed it
- gvk_layout_id matches a mesh's layout as numbers in a scratch made once, against the layouts
known end to end; a new mesh no longer builds a key string
- gvk_mem_new puts a new block into the record of one given back rather than appending, so a
buffer made again every few frames no longer grows the block lists
steady.ludic adds a glTF parsed and freed whole 200 times: 0 bytes (38,400 before the digits fix),
beside the buffer path and the frame, still 0. A model loaded and let go still keeps ~2 KB a round
(texture and buffer handles are not reused yet); it is bounded at 8 KB a round.
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- model_release(model) frees each primitive's mesh, and each texture once no other model uses it:
the glTF texture cache counts the primitives using each texture (a path loaded again, and a LOD
chain borrowing its LOD0's material, each take a reference); the last one frees the texture and
forgets it along with any remembered material naming it, so a later load is a fresh one
- a scatter layer's instance and sort arrays start at 256 and double as layer_add or a stream
fills them, to the layer's cap, instead of the whole cap up front (0.4 GB in Maroon Lake)
- gvk_tex_read's copy struct comes from the scratch ring
- examples/rendering/release.ludic holds it (RELEASE OK on Vulkan and OpenGL), in the suite
smooth renders pixel-identical before and after (max |d| 0). ludic-dev test 306/306.
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300 parses of a 446 KB glTF: 2118 MB before, 528 MB with the one-allocation string, 94 MB freed.
A headless Maroon Lake at play: 2334 -> 2195 MB by footprint.
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ludic migrate state packages <every example program> packages/ludic.lab/example/plate.ludic
1804 vars into 126 states, 64 into lets; 23498 edits in 460 files
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selfhost/check/ walks every function, the entry, tests, globals' initializers and
@On listeners with real scopes, and refuses mixed number kinds, text and numbers,
two record types, mismatched slices and fn types, wrong argument counts, wrong
returns and wrong push elements - every mix-up at once, each at its line.
LUDIC_CHECK_REPORT=1 lists them by category. pointer stays untyped (L7's).
What it found is fixed: render3d's HDR scan calling the float-bits extern f_lt
with floats; ludic.shooter's right-stick aim overflowing past half a push;
prof.ludic storing longs in []int; extern arguments now coerced to their
parameters. Text-returning runtime functions say string; Assets.ready says bool.
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A numbers float file adapts decimal literals to a fixed operand or slot, and refuses to
promote a computed int to a float implicitly: there it is almost always float bits. Explicit
float(x) is always allowed.
render3d's numbers are float, converted by tools/migrate/floatbits.py - a whole-program
inference of which ints carried IEEE bits (union-find over flows, calls, returns, buffers,
nested buffers and lexical scopes) and a rewriter to operators, Math.* and float literals,
with float_bits / float_from_bits left only where bits really cross (runtime scratch
buffers, mixed buffers). Seed regenerated.
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Every level of a kit tree or rock carries the same materials, so a GPU-culled layer merges each
material's levels into one mesh (layer_arena_build) and scatter_cull.comp writes a record per
(material, level) naming that level's index and vertex range; one indirect draw covers them all.
A conifer's lit pass and prepass go from 8 draws to 2, its shadow LOD from 6 to 2. Layers that do
not fit (card levels, other materials or attributes, 32-bit indices) keep the CPU path.
GPU culling is now the Vulkan default (R3D_GPU_CULL=0 turns it off). Camp benchmark, 400 frames:
PC 2791 -> 2657 draws, 4.3 -> 4.1 s (both runs); Mac 2791 -> 2657, 8.0/7.4 -> 7.7/7.2 s.
Self-tests 59/59 on both machines, PC validation 0 errors; frames within run-to-run noise; OpenGL
frames unchanged.
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Every vertex array, vertex and index buffer, attribute pointer, instance divisor, stream
upload and draw call now goes through gpu_mesh_* / gpu_buffer_* / gpu_draw_*, and no other
file in the package names them. A Mesh records its layout as it is built - which buffer
feeds which attribute at what stride and offset, per vertex or per instance - so a backend
that bakes vertex input into a pipeline can read it back. On OpenGL each call is the GL it
replaces, in the same order: the five fixed viewpoints render bit-identically and the game's
self-tests report exactly what they did before.
scatter_attach takes the mesh rather than its vertex array; a mesh now frees every vertex
buffer it owns (glTF meshes used to keep all but the first); the two helpers nothing called,
mesh_grid_patches and mesh_instance_buffer, are gone.
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`Gl.*` binds the whole OpenGL 4.1 core API — every entry point of the
platform gl3.h with every GL_* constant, generated by `ludic-dev glgen`
with per-call ABI thunks. Windowed builds get an NSOpenGLContext on the
existing window at Retina resolution; headless builds render into an
offscreen CGL context, so a program that uses Gl.* renders and
screenshots identically under the test harness. It links gl.ll, the
thunks and OpenGL.framework only when used; every other build stays
byte-identical.
packages/ludic.render3d is a physically based renderer written on that
surface: HDRI image-based lighting, GPU-generated terrain with scanned
PBR materials, CDLOD, cascaded shadows, glTF with skinning, instanced
vegetation with impostors, procedural grass, water, SSAO, and an HDR
pipeline with bloom, auto-exposure and ACES.
It also carries this session's work on it: the terrain at half its cost
(10.3 -> 5.4 ms of frame), the streaming hitch that got worse the longer
you played, a resize that emptied the world, and the packaging that lets
a game use the renderer from its own repository — `ludic assets`, the
material manifest shipping with the package, and shader lookup falling
back to the install root. See changes/ for each, with its numbers.
The camping game that drove all of it has moved out to its own
repository, Maroon Lake; examples/rendering/smooth.ludic stays as the
renderer's example here.
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