From:	James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject:	Re: The future of graphics programming
Date:	Sun, 1 Mar 1998 09:33:12 -0500
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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.
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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