Bug 59332 – ut2004 optimization with shared library symlinks

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description John Nilsson 2004-08-03 21:16:02 UTC]

ut2004 can be optimized a little by using system libraries.

The performance gain here is minor, but it might be worth investigating further.  Should I make patch to the ebuild to support theses links?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Change to your ut2004/Benchmark directory and create a file called 'benchmark.sh' with the following content.
#!/bin/sh
../ut2004 dm-rankin?spectatoronly=1?numbots=12?quickstart=1?attractcam=1 -benchmark -seconds=77 -ini=default.ini -exec=../Benchmark/Stuff/botmatchexec.txt $*


chmod +x benchmark.sh

Now go to ut2004/Benchmark/Stuff and create botmatchexec.txt
showhud
ship


o change directory to "ut2004/Benchmark/"
o run the script: ./benchmark.sh

The results will be placed in ~/.ut2004/Benchmark/Results

Actual Results:  
#with -nosound
11.751631 / 38.120991 / 92.699600 fps -- Score = 38.149940

#standard installation (3236-r1)
9.190248 / 37.392365 / 88.916649 fps -- Score = 37.421368

#ln -s /opt/ut2004/System/openal.so /usr/lib/libopenal.so
11.892935 / 37.762680 / 85.310272 fps -- Score = 37.793499

#ln -s /opt/ut2004/System/libSDL-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
11.756836 / 37.771847 / 86.932014 fps -- Score = 37.799709

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-08-04 06:26:36 UTC]

While this is acceptable for a user to do himself, we don't want to modify the package beyond how it is shipped, as it makes support much harder.  Plus it introduces 2 more dependencies to the package which are not specifically required, along with the possibility of a user's broken openal or libSDL causing problems (and therefore bugs) with the game.  If you look through the CVS history for the ut2004-demo ebuild, you will see that I did this at one point for x86, but reverted to the (now patched) libraries from Ryan Gordon, at his request.  Because of this, I am leaving the package alone.  It isn't our place to make such changes, otherwise, I would be making changes to the .ini files to improve performance.