Re: OpenGL+GLUT the future

[Paul Matthews <paulmatthews@yahoo.com>]

---Adrian Ratnapala <s369625@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> ...a layer over glut.  It was _slow_...
>
Whoa, MesaGL is slow, esp. for software rendering. GLUT however is not
slow. Your program will spend less than 0.01% of its time in GLUT. 

The reason it appears so is because Mesa's software rendering
currently a bit of a dog. The LAG is due to the MesaGL renderer, not
GLUT.

> The Mesa people will optimize the 2d functions, 
> and hardware will get faster.  But it will still be
> big and slow.
>
Would it not be better to assist MesaGL, which will have the advantage
of hardware optimisation where avaliable, rather than yet another 3d
graphics api?

With pure 2d it is a bit of an issue, but we already have ggi or X11
to fill that particular need on Linux.
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Paul Matthews
nudge@samba.anu.edu.au


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