Measured on a PSP (pspautotests gpu/timing/blittiming), a full-screen blit
from an unswizzled texture costs what the texture fetch costs: 16-bit formats
half of 32-bit, VRAM a fifth of RAM, and rectangles wider than ~128 texels
~7.5x as much as narrow strips, from texture cache thrashing. Framebuffer
format, filtering and blending don't matter. Ys I & II draws its movie as one
full-width sprite from a 565 texture in RAM, which takes 33ms - that, not the
decode, is what holds it to 30 fps.
All of the ME and GE costs speed up with the clock (2/3 as long at 333/166),
since the whole system runs from the one PLL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This is stuff encountered in the VSH boot research.
sceRtc_driver, scePower_driver, sceImpose_driver, ThreadManForKernel funcs,
sceRtcGetAlarmTick, sceHprm_driver/sceHprmReadLatch
sceVshBridge_Driver imports sceKernelResumeDispatchThread, SuspendDispatchThread,
and NotifyCallback from ThreadManForKernel, but they were only registered under
ThreadManForUser. Added sceKernelGetUserLevel and sceKernelIsUserModeThread (new).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9