Re: [4/5] wined3d: Use a bitmask to store which bool and int constants are set.

[Henri Verbeet]

2008/12/3 Juan Lang :
> > Why is this a good thing - this just artificially caps your constants at
> > 32. If I remember correctly I had to change shaders to do the exact
> > opposite change, because newer versions introduced more than 32 constants.
>
> I agree with you, this is a questionable change.  The benefit in
> reduced data results in a gain of code size and runtime cost.
> --Juan

Perhaps setting constants becomes slightly more expensive this way,
but I'm not convinced it's very significant. The more performance
critical code that applies the constants becomes significantly cheaper
though.