Nvidia's OpenGL driver maps gl(Named)BufferSubData with some requirements
to a fast. This path has an extra memcpy but updates the buffer without
orphaning or waiting for previous calls. It can be seen as a better
model for "push constants" that can upload a whole UBO instead of 256
bytes.
This path has some requirements established here:
http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/presentations/S4379-opengl-44-scene-rendering-techniques.pdf#page=24
Instead of using the stream buffer, this commits moves constant buffers
uploads to calls of glNamedBufferSubData and from my testing it brings a
performance improvement. This is disabled when the vendor is not Nvidia
since it brings performance regressions.
Quite a few unused includes have built up over time, particularly on
core/memory.h. Removing these includes means the source files including
those files will no longer need to be rebuilt if they're changed, making
compilation slightly faster in this scenario.
Rather than have a transparent dependency, we can make it explicit in
the interface. This also gets rid of the need to put the core include in
a header.
* get rid of boost::optional
* Remove optional references
* Use std::reference_wrapper for optional references
* Fix clang format
* Fix clang format part 2
* Adressed feedback
* Fix clang format and MacOS build
The idea of this cache is to avoid redundant uploads. So we are going
to cache the uploaded buffers within the stream_buffer and just reuse
the old pointers.
The next step is to implement a VBO cache on GPU memory, but for now,
I want to check the overhead of the cache management. Fetching the
buffer over PCI-E should be quite fast.