Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] OPENGL

[Greg E. <gre...@ca...>]

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> The answer is basically that the 
> maintenance headaches outweigh the performance gain (to the extent that 
> the system would likely have been abandoned if we'd kept on with the 
> hand-coded, and then SWIG-coded wrappers).

Have you considered using Pyrex?

> Actually, ctypes is quite slow compared to e.g. SWIG.  That's because it 
> does a lot more work at run-time for every call than a SWIG or similar 
> system does.  OpenGL-ctypes (PyOpenGL) is even slower because it has to 
> provide the array and similar semantics that aren't available in ctypes' 
> core.

This is a little worrying, as OpenGL calls are something you
really don't want being inefficient. I'm hoping this is more
of a theoretical than practical concern. Has anyone done any
measurements?

--
Greg