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Realtime fisheye to cubic or spherical panorama transformations with OpenGL or pixelshaders

I'd like to transform a sequence of circular fisheye-images to cubic or spherical panorama images to be used in a panorama-viewer based on OpenGL. The viewer-part is nemas problemas but the transform ...
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Do I lose/gain performance for discarding pixels even if I don't use depth testing?

When I first searched for discard instruction, I've found experts saying using discard will result in performance drain. They said discarding pixels will break GPU's ability to use zBuffer properly ...
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Graphic hardware texture formats shaders relational speed

I'm interested to know, is there a direct correlation to the speed that a shader will run based on the bit depth of a texture upon which it is running. For example: If I have a 2 bit stencil texture ...