On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
Hi!
> This will dramatically increase the overhead of the accel data
> transfer, as you will need to send that huge struct every time, regardless
> of whether all the fields are needed by the driver or any given triangle
> drawing operation. Also the translation from 32bits to 16 or 8 bits would
> be required in the driver itself, which would cause even more slowdown.
>
> HOWEVER, this would definitely achieve the goal of creating a
> simple, cross-driver 3D KGI development environment. And since the
> existing KGI API is going to be obsoleted in the near future anyway,
> perhaps it is more important right now to enable people to write 3D KGI
> drivers quickly and easily and to simplify the initial GGIMesa target code
> than it is to get maximum performance. Opinions, anyone?
AND one important thing you won't have to restart computer to load driver
again to see the changes you have done. It was horrible for me to restart
computer again and again before I do this "that" way.
> Jon
>
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>
Bye, Martin
