Code review comment for lp:~kdub/mir/post-if-optimizable

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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Kevin DuBois
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> >> So this makes it easier to bring up platforms in the short term,
> >> and will
> >> probably be a no-op in the long term?
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> > I'm confused as what will 'be a no-op in the long term'.
> > post_renderables_if_optimizable() will be the hardware optimized
> > interface that compositors should try if they know they're doing
> > something simple, and post_update() will be the interface that the
> > compositors use to do anything they want with GL
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> What I mean is - as a platform (and, conceivably, Renderable) grows in
> sophistication, there will be fewer and fewer RenderableLists that
> contain only unoptimisable Renderables. So what I mean by “no-op”
> is that post_renderables_if_optimizable() will end up always returning
> true.

sure, I hope that it returns true more often as time goes on. I think though that we'll always need the post_update() interface for the compositors who know beforehand that they're doing something like wobbly windows that isn't representable by a RenderableList.