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Locating the Bottleneck

Locating the bottleneck is half the battle in optimization, because it enables you to make intelligent decisions about focusing your actual optimization efforts. Figure 28-2 shows a flow chart depicting the series of steps required to locate the precise bottleneck in your application. Note that we start at the back end of the pipeline, with the frame-buffer operations (also called raster operations) and end at the CPU. Note also that while any single primitive (usually a triangle), by definition, has a single bottleneck, over the course of a frame the bottleneck most likely changes. Thus, modifying the workload on more than one stage in the pipeline often influences performance. For example, a low-polygon skybox is often bound by fragment shading or frame-buffer access; a skinned mesh that maps to only a few pixels on screen is often bound by CPU or vertex processing. For this reason, it frequently helps to vary workloads on an object-by-object, or material-by-material, basis.

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