RE: [paragui-users] OpenGL & SDL

[Dinand Vanvelzen]

I didn't do the test myself.
Some people on a gamedev board... think I was flipcode but unsure did it
and made a few stupid mistakes in their "test". That's what I was
referring to.
OpenGL is faster with just simple logic. Software rendering can never be
as fast as hardware since there are to many generic processes. And since
there's not much more speed advantages to be gained in further
optimizing blitting ect. They are both about equal in that plain but
then hardware accel. kicks in and OpenGL takes off like a rocket. So
OpenGL will be equally fast or faster then 99.9% of the pure SDL apps
IMHO.
You are quite welcome to test this and I'm 100% sure you will come to
the same result.
I know there are people that tested it and came to this conclusion which
is a logical one all things considered.

DV.

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taurus
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 18:35
To: Dinand Vanvelzen
Subject: [paragui-users] OpenGL & SDL

Hello Dinand,

Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 11:49:28 AM, you wrote:

DV> OpenGL is faster or equal speed as SDL blitting in software.
DV> The problem is OpenGL works on different principles using geometric
DV> primitives. So the API itself is more hands on. This creates room
for
DV> misuse of OpenGL. Example : the want to draw 10000 triangles in
OpenGl
DV> and SDL and then compare.

Do you have the results already?
Can you post them with the info on your video card?
If it`s offtopic, I would appreciate if you send it on my email, I`m
curious, but doesn`t have time to make such test.
Thank you.


Kind regards,
       taurus                          

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