For further discussion see, http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0093/
The scenarios where it will improve performance are under Debug builds. This improvement will however allow quicker use of other profiling tools that need to run on Debug builds.
Note. Code with size_t does not see the performance improvement comparison to iterators due to absence of array overrun check.
add a central parse_modular_table() function which anything can use
fix up weapon_expl so that it can properly handle modular tables and LOD count changes
add support for for a fireball TBM (handled a little different than a normal TBM is since it only changes rather than adds)
basic code cleanup (that previous braces change did nothing for readability)
spell "plyr" correctly
tweak warp shrink time to better match WMC's other changes and avoid the skipping during shrink
add lab stuff to Makefile
build unbreakage for everything that's not MSVC++ 6
lots of warning fixes
fix OpenGL rendering problem with ship insignias
no Warnings() in non-debug mode for Linux (like Windows)
some campaign savefile fixage to stop reverting everyones data
have the warp effect only load as many LODs as will get used
head off strange bug in release when corrupt soundtrack number gets used
(will still Assert in debug)
don't ever try and save a campaign savefile in multi or standalone modes
first try at 32bit->16bit color conversion for TGA code (for TGA only ship textures)
OK, these changes effect a lot of file, I suggest everyone updates ASAP:
Removal of many files from project.
Removal of meanless Gr_bitmap_poly variable.
Removal of glide, directdraw, software modules all links to them, and all code specific to those paths.
Removal of redundant Fred paths that arent needed for Fred OGL.
Have seriously tidied the graphics initialisation code and added generic non standard mode functionality.
Fixed many D3D non standard mode bugs and brought OGL up to the same level.
Removed texture section support for D3D8, voodoo 2 and 3 cards will no longer run under fs2_open in D3D, same goes for any card with a maximum texture size less than 1024.
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