Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Easier CVA questions

[Gareth H. <ga...@va...>]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing that in terms of raw triangle performance, though,
> display lists would be just as fast or faster than CVA.  Is that true?

Not necessarily.  It really depends on a whole bunch of things,
including things like your hardware capabilities (some hardware can
process display lists directly) and the driver implementations of
display lists and CVA.

On the other hand, some of the good ol' SGI hardware could process
immediate mode triangles very fast as well.  You'd have to ask one of
the local ex-SGI luminaries about that, though ;-)

-- Gareth