Make gui/math3d classes use float rather than qreal

This corrects the mismatch between using floats for internal storage
and qreal in the API of QVector*D which leads to lots of implicit
casts between double and float.

This change also stops users from being surprised by the loss of
precision when using these classes on desktop platforms and removes
the need for the private constructors taking a dummy int as the final
argument.

The QMatrix4x4 and QQuaternion classes have been changed to use float
for their internal storage since these are meant to be used in
conjunction with the QVector*D classes. This is to prevent unexpected
loss of precision and to improve performance.

The on-disk format has also been changed from double to float thereby
reducing the storage required when streaming vectors and matrices. This
is potentially a large saving when working with complex 3D meshes etc.

This also has a significant performance improvement when passing
matrices to QOpenGLShaderProgram (and QGLShaderProgram) as we no
longer have to iterate and convert the data to floats. This is
an operation that could easily be needed many times per frame.

This change also opens the door for further optimisations of these
classes to be implemented by using SIMD intrinsics.

This needs to be applied in conjunction with

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,33548

Task-number: QTBUG-21035
Task-number: QTBUG-20661
Change-Id: I9321b06040ffb93ae1cbd72fd2013267ac901b2e
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/examples/widgets/graphicsview/boxes/scene.cpp b/examples/widgets/graphicsview/boxes/scene.cpp
index 5fb43d8c99..cf0b021b47 100644
--- a/examples/widgets/graphicsview/boxes/scene.cpp
+++ b/examples/widgets/graphicsview/boxes/scene.cpp
@@ -655,22 +655,12 @@ static void loadMatrix(const QMatrix4x4& m)
 {
     // static to prevent glLoadMatrixf to fail on certain drivers
     static GLfloat mat[16];
-    const qreal *data = m.constData();
+    const float *data = m.constData();
     for (int index = 0; index < 16; ++index)
         mat[index] = data[index];
     glLoadMatrixf(mat);
 }
 
-static void multMatrix(const QMatrix4x4& m)
-{
-    // static to prevent glMultMatrixf to fail on certain drivers
-    static GLfloat mat[16];
-    const qreal *data = m.constData();
-    for (int index = 0; index < 16; ++index)
-        mat[index] = data[index];
-    glMultMatrixf(mat);
-}
-
 // If one of the boxes should not be rendered, set excludeBox to its index.
 // If the main box should not be rendered, set excludeBox to -1.
 void Scene::renderBoxes(const QMatrix4x4 &view, int excludeBox)
@@ -722,7 +712,7 @@ void Scene::renderBoxes(const QMatrix4x4 &view, int excludeBox)
         glPushMatrix();
         QMatrix4x4 m;
         m.rotate(m_trackBalls[1].rotation());
-        multMatrix(m);
+        glMultMatrixf(m.constData());
 
         glRotatef(360.0f * i / m_programs.size(), 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
         glTranslatef(2.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
@@ -755,7 +745,7 @@ void Scene::renderBoxes(const QMatrix4x4 &view, int excludeBox)
     if (-1 != excludeBox) {
         QMatrix4x4 m;
         m.rotate(m_trackBalls[0].rotation());
-        multMatrix(m);
+        glMultMatrixf(m.constData());
 
         if (glActiveTexture) {
             if (m_dynamicCubemap)