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## Chapter 58\
Heinlein's Crystal Ball, Spock's Brain, and the 9-Cycle Dare {#Heading1}
Heinlein's Crystal Ball, Spock's Brain, and the 9-Cycle Dare
### Using the Whole-Brain Approach to Accelerate Texture Mapping {#Heading2}
### Using the Whole-Brain Approach to Accelerate Texture Mapping
I've had the pleasure recently of rereading several of the works of
Robert A. Heinlein, and I'm as impressed as I was as a teenager—but in a
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As Exhibit \#1, I present my experience with speeding up the texture
mapper in X-Sharp.
### Texture Mapping Redux {#Heading3}
### Texture Mapping Redux
We've spent the previous several chapters exploring the X Sharp graphics
library, something I built over time as a serious exercise in 3-D
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It was the "Hmph" that really got to me.
#### Left-Brain Optimization {#Heading4}
#### Left-Brain Optimization
That was the first shot of juice for my optimizer (or at least blow to
my ego, which can be just as productive). John went on to say he had
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Why indeed?
#### A 90-Degree Shift in Perspective {#Heading5}
#### A 90-Degree Shift in Perspective
As I said earlier, how you look at an optimization problem defines how
you'll be able to solve it. In order to boost performance, sometimes
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ideas off someone, you may well find them coming back with an
unexpected—and welcome—spin.
### That's Nice—But it Sure as Heck Ain't 9 Cycles {#Heading6}
### That's Nice—But it Sure as Heck Ain't 9 Cycles
Excellent as Chris's suggestion was, I still had work to do: Listing
58.2 is still more than twice as slow as John Miles's code.
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ENDM
```
#### Don't Stop Thinking about Those Cycles {#Heading7}
#### Don't Stop Thinking about Those Cycles
Remember what I said at the outset, that knowing something has been done
makes it much easier to do? A corollary is that pushing past that point,
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that he's made it faster than your wildest dreams, and you'll be amazed
at what you can do!
### Texture Mapping Notes {#Heading8}
### Texture Mapping Notes
Listing 58.3 contains no 486 pipeline stalls; it has Pentium stalls, but
not much can be done for them because of the size prefix on `ADD