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Commits and Patches to my Branch

Commits

• Face Normal on the Fly (6d62837e5bb2)

• Add an AVX2 kernel, with AVX2 and FMA3 instruction support. (ac908f6c1f6d)
• Add FMA intrinsics to the AVX2 kernel, gives 2-3% speedup. (3844b8f85c7d)
• Use Bit Manipulation flags for the AVX2 kernel. (caaf0e484da8)
• Cycles: Update AVX2 kernel for recent changes. (d115673fc934)
• Cycles: Further update for AVX2 kernel after recent changes. (e638abeb63f2)

• Add support for uchar4 attributes (d1950dbda53b)

• Optimization for sine/cosine calculation. (4f96edd254c6)

• Split/Combine nodes for vectors. (6a808b2b0bc4)

• Initial code for a QBVH. (590aae22a6cb)

• Shader ID memory optimization (5738900060e7)

Patches

• Calculate Face Normal on the fly: https://developer.blender.org/D487 [CLOSED]
• Sample all Lamps for Volumes: https://developer.blender.org/D526 [WIP]