Defer worker thread creation until the first draw call.

src/Renderer/Renderer.cpp

@@ -183,8 +183,6 @@ namespace sw
 			delete drawCall[draw];
 		}
 
-		deleteBatches();
-
 		delete swiftConfig;
 	}
 
@@ -1831,14 +1829,10 @@ namespace sw
 			   Clipper::CLIP_FINITE;   // FIXME: xyz finite
 	}
 
-	void Renderer::initializeThreads(int threads)
+	void Renderer::initializeThreads()
 	{
-		terminateThreads();
-		deleteBatches();
-
-		threadCount = threads;
-		unitCount = ceilPow2(threads);
-		clusterCount = ceilPow2(threads);
+		unitCount = ceilPow2(threadCount);
+		clusterCount = ceilPow2(threadCount);
 
 		for(int i = 0; i < unitCount; i++)
 		{
@@ -1894,10 +1888,7 @@ namespace sw
 			deallocate(vertexTask[thread]);
 			vertexTask[thread] = 0;
 		}
-	}
 
-	void Renderer::deleteBatches()
-	{
 		for(int i = 0; i < 16; i++)
 		{
 			deallocate(triangleBatch[i]);
@@ -2504,9 +2495,9 @@ namespace sw
 
 			switch(configuration.threadCount)
 			{
-			case -1: initializeThreads(CPUID::coreCount());        break;
-			case 0:  initializeThreads(CPUID::processAffinity());  break;
-			default: initializeThreads(configuration.threadCount); break;
+			case -1: threadCount = CPUID::coreCount();        break;
+			case 0:  threadCount = CPUID::processAffinity();  break;
+			default: threadCount = configuration.threadCount; break;
 			}
 
 			CPUID::setEnableSSE4_1(configuration.enableSSE4_1);
@@ -2531,5 +2522,10 @@ namespace sw
 			maxPrimitives = configuration.maxPrimitives;
 		#endif
 		}
+
+		if(!initialUpdate && !worker[0])
+		{
+			initializeThreads();
+		}
 	}
 }

src/Renderer/Renderer.hpp

@@ -359,9 +359,8 @@ namespace sw
 		void updateClipper();
 		void updateConfiguration(bool initialUpdate = false);
 		static unsigned int computeClipFlags(const float4 &v, const DrawData &data);
-		void initializeThreads(int threadCount);
+		void initializeThreads();
 		void terminateThreads();
-		void deleteBatches();
 
 		void loadConstants(const VertexShader *vertexShader);
 		void loadConstants(const PixelShader *pixelShader);