Introduction

Increasing processor speeds have led to the introduction of more complex algorithms that provide games with a more dynamic player environment, resulting in a decline in the use of vertex linear interpolation for animations. Additionally, vertex processing in hardware is increasingly minimizing the need for software interpolation. However, most users do not have hardware vertex processors, so it's important to optimize your software interpolation to support this gaming segment.

by George Walsh

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Introduction

There's really no denying that application optimization yields performance benefits. The question in each case is whether time spent optimizing and resulting performance gains is worth the development time, effort and cost. As part of his work with the Intel® software team Eric Palmer works closely with ISVs, helping to boost performance of their applications. Palmer has developed a four-step approach--it works for him, and it will work for your applications too.

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Introduction

During the design of the Pentium® 4 processor, Intel's design-engineering team reaped the rewards of migrating from legacy RISC*-based systems to Linux* on Intel architecture.

Design-engineering teams at Intel have achieved substantial savings in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by migrating to Linux on Intel® architecture from legacy UNIX* systems on RISC-based architecture. At the same time, those teams have achieved substantial productivity gains from the performance benefits associated with the migration.