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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.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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