Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpenGL Deprecation & New Methods

[Ian M. <geo...@gm...>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Mike C. Fletcher <mcf...@vr...>wrote:

> Thing is, there hasn't been a hardware implementation of
> glRotate/glScale/glTranslate in a long time, from what I'm told.  The GL
> has just been implementing all of the "legacy" transformation code in
> simple (read not-very-optimized) C code in the driver which then passed
> the results into the shader it was building under the covers to render
> the legacy shading model.
>
I stand corrected.  However, not-very optimized C code is better than
optimized Python code, I assume . . .