Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 00:22:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New 3D software available Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909050020150.2081-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199909042206.PAA88399@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > van.woerkom@netcologne.de said: > > I tried this under X11 (with riva-glx 3d acceleration) and got a > > nice > > animated teapot, rendered by Mesa. > > Most cool! > > Say how is the performance of hardware acceleration vs. software rendering? Hardware is hugely faster - Mesa is not a very fast software renderer. We have been considering writing a decent software renderer for QDraw but we don't have the time just yet. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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