Re: [Plib-devel] ssgVtxArray fixes.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Chris Phillips wrote:
> 
> >Is there some reason why the index array is an array of 'int'?  Since the
> underlying
> >SSG classes don't allow more than 32k vertices/normals/colours/texcoords
> per leaf
> >node - it seems unlikely that this would be needed - and there are
> certainly speed
> >improvements to be had from using a 'short' index array.
> >
>         I was under the impression that dealing with ints is usually faster that
> shorts on
> 32 bit processors. Are you talking about speed improvments from code
> optimization or something
> else like data cacheing?

Well, doing *math* on ints is probably faster than shorts - but this is largely
a matter of RAM bandwidth and cache sizes and such.  I'm no expert either - but
I was under the impression that for simple indexing and such, shorts can be
faster.

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