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ofxGui super slow on Raspberry Pi using GLES2 programmable renderer
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Description
Noticed this slow down while doing some other work.
You can reproduce this by comparing the standard examples/gui/guiExample app.
Just change the main.cpp to the following:
#ifdef OF_TARGET_OPENGLES
ofGLESWindowSettings settings;
settings.glesVersion=2;
#else
ofGLWindowSettings settings;
settings.setGLVersion(3,2);
#endif
ofCreateWindow(settings);
// this kicks off the running of my app
// can be OF_WINDOW or OF_FULLSCREEN
// pass in width and height too:
ofRunApp(new ofApp());
Change the settings.glesVersion line to toggle between GLES1 and GLES2 to see the performance drop. It goes from 60fps to 9fps when switching between the two render paths.
I also noticed drawing primitives like ofDrawCircle() to be very slow under GLES2.
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Research direction
Start with examples/gui/guiExample and its main.cpp, then reproduce the FPS difference by toggling settings.glesVersion between GLES1 and GLES2 on a Raspberry Pi. Compare the GLES2 rendering path, including primitive drawing such as ofDrawCircle(); done means the severe GLES2 slowdown is resolved and the example no longer drops from about 60fps to 9fps.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, raspberry-pi
- Domain
- computer-graphics, embedded-iot, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100