User:Jbakker/projects/FasterAnimationPlayback

Faster Animation Playback

• Spring Scene Analysis
• TBB Performance

Software

For regular performance testing we use perf and hotspot (https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot).

sudo apt install linux-tools-common linux-tools-generic

From hotspot I downloaded the AppImage from https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases/tag/v1.2.0 .

Test scenes

I used production anim scenes from cloud.blender.org For now I selected the following to warm up the project. Eventually other scenes will be selected as actual benchmark scenes.

• Daily Dweebs: A production with a lot of subsurf modifiers and effects that require them (https://cloud.blender.org/p/dailydweebs/59e7c62ef4885514ede4b8f9)
• Spring 01_025_A: Relative small animation file. (https://cloud.blender.org/p/spring/5cb08a92808c0e75b5b2b478)

Testing method

Compile blender using RelWithDebInfo This allows hotspot to show the detailed information. Run a scene and playback in the viewport for at least a minute. (set playback to nosync)

Hardware

These tests will be executed on different hardware with different CPUs and GPUs.