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#ifndef __GLHARWAREBUFFERMANAGER_H__
#define __GLHARWAREBUFFERMANAGER_H__

#include "OgreGLPrerequisites.h"
#include "OgreHardwareBufferManager.h"

namespace Ogre {

// Threshold at which glMapBuffer becomes more efficient than glBufferSubData (32k?)
// non-Win32 machines are having issues with this, looks like buffer corruption
// disable for now until we figure out where the problem lies
#if OGRE_PLATFORM == OGRE_PLATFORM_WIN32
#       define OGRE_GL_MAP_BUFFER_THRESHOLD (1024 * 32)
#else
#       define OGRE_GL_MAP_BUFFER_THRESHOLD 0
#endif

    /** Implementation of HardwareBufferManager for OpenGL. */
    class _OgrePrivate GLHardwareBufferManager : public HardwareBufferManager
    {
        protected:
                char* mScratchBufferPool;
                OGRE_MUTEX(mScratchMutex)

    public:
        GLHardwareBufferManager();
        ~GLHardwareBufferManager();
        /// Creates a vertex buffer
        HardwareVertexBufferSharedPtr createVertexBuffer(size_t vertexSize, 
            size_t numVerts, HardwareBuffer::Usage usage, bool useShadowBuffer = false);
        /// Create a hardware vertex buffer
        HardwareIndexBufferSharedPtr createIndexBuffer(
            HardwareIndexBuffer::IndexType itype, size_t numIndexes, 
            HardwareBuffer::Usage usage, bool useShadowBuffer = false);

        /// Utility function to get the correct GL usage based on HBU's
        static GLenum getGLUsage(unsigned int usage);

        /// Utility function to get the correct GL type based on VET's
        static GLenum getGLType(unsigned int type);

                /** Allocator method to allow us to use a pool of memory as a scratch
                        area for hardware buffers. This is because glMapBuffer is incredibly
                        inefficient, seemingly no matter what options we give it. So for the
                        period of lock/unlock, we will instead allocate a section of a local
                        memory pool, and use glBufferSubDataARB / glGetBufferSubDataARB
                        instead.
                */
                void* allocateScratch(uint32 size);

                /// @see allocateScratch
                void deallocateScratch(void* ptr);
    };

}

#endif // __GLHARWAREBUFFERMANAGER_H__