RE: [Algorithms] OpenGL LockArrayEXT ... workaround

[Charles B. <cb...@cb...>]

At 10:21 PM 8/27/00 +0200, you wrote:
>I got this from nvidia site:
>
>"There is an optimal size for vertex buffers - a fact which is not intuitively obvious.
>You should aim for around 2000 vertices per buffer or for around 64K of RAM used."

First off, the 64k limit is just because 16-bit indices are used for vertices,
and that's a hard limit to stay for quite some time, I imagine.  As for that 2k
vertices per buffer, that was an anomaly of old GeForce drivers, and has been
removed.  Hey NVidia, you need to make a new document on how to optimize for T&L
that doesn't dwell so much on the oddities of the GeForce (which really does
have odd performance characterics which are not typical of Radeon and other
future T&L products, like NV20 presumably).

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