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t # 5
on bug 10605=
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from Roland Scheidegger
(In reply to Marek Ol=C5=A1=C3=A1k from comment #4)
> I think the hw doesn't have a clipper, though it=
shouldn't be hard to verify
> if it's true. Yeah, draw could use some optimizations for the clipper,=
e.g.
> the guardband, but simply doing culling (not clipping) should be enoug=
h for
> point sprites.
That's what I meant with guardband clipping: there's no actual clipping, but
the hw will still cull pixels outside the viewport. Hence it probably would=
be
better if draw wouldn't clip if a primitive doesn't fit into the viewport, =
but
fits into the (hw) guardband. (And you are right that point sprites are a b=
it
of a special case.)