#218 slow teapot

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

[teapot] is jaw-droppingly slow. drawing 64 of them uses 380% CPU according to load-meter.pd, cpu is 3.3GHz amd64. using [model] with a teapot.obj uses less than 5% CPU.

Pd:

Pd version 0.42.6

Gem:

verbose( -1):GEM: ver: 0.93.git 867c5a7
verbose( -1):GEM: compiled: Mar 26 2013

GPU:

NVIDIA GTX 550Ti with proprietary drivers on Debian.

I have a teapot.obj here that I found online, but I'm not sure of its license. It has:

530 vertices
800 texture vertices
530 vertex normals
992 faces