From: lkcl <lkcl@web>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 20:16:55 +0000 (+0100)
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X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~3762
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=adecd072a46b388ddfdaff85b090c54be3cc2720;p=libreriscv.git

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diff --git a/3d_gpu/architecture/dynamic_simd.mdwn b/3d_gpu/architecture/dynamic_simd.mdwn
index c11e6f223..fc798931e 100644
--- a/3d_gpu/architecture/dynamic_simd.mdwn
+++ b/3d_gpu/architecture/dynamic_simd.mdwn
@@ -267,7 +267,13 @@ All of these ideas, unfortunately, are extremely costly in many different ways:
 4. Wrapper classes introduce huge performance degradation. Every function
   requires one additional function call. Every object instantiated requires
   both the wrapper class to be instantiated and the object being wrapped,
-  every single time.  Memory requirements double; performance degrades.
+  every single time.  A single wrapper class is never enough: the entire
+  class hierarchy, everything that is ever instantiated by a "wrapped"
+  class ibstance, typically also requires wrapping.  This quickly
+  gets completely out of hand and diverts developer time into a
+  nightmare time-sink that has actively harmful consequences *even
+  once completed*.
+  Memory requirements double; performance degrades.
   Both are unacceptable.
 5. "Explicit coding" is actually more costly even than for-loop
   code duplication.  It is "The Right Thing (tm)" in order to achieve