Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/02/08:53:48
James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Um, 20,000 polygons per frame?
> with a minimal speed of 24 fps, this is 400,000 polygons per sec.
> A fast pentium processeor does about 2-4 mil instructions per second.
2 or 4 MIPS! are you really sure? I think that a P100 is 20 times faster than
that.
> So like if you could put a polygon down 1/10 as fast as you could do a basic
> additoion problem this is feasable. But with with current hardware
> constraints, we can do maybe 1/10000 as fast... 3 orders of magnitude.
> I don't forsee computers becoming that much more fast in the next couple
> years. I mean I'd like faster software than allegro. I mean, who doesn't
> want faster software, the simple fact is that no one has done it, so I
> just work with what I got.
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