more on Chris's optimization ideas

[Joseph J. S. <jo...@st...>]

At 1:11 PM -0600 2/10/04, Chris Dillman did some profiling and wrote thusly:

>1. Eliminate any calls to glFinish();
>Apple advise againts using this at all for any high speed GL application.
>So is there a reason it is in Quesa?

I never saw an answer to this, and I'm curious about it.  Anyone?

>2. Move to vertex array range in "shared" state if possible.
>WC3 uses this to very good effect.
>
>3. How about a state flag of some sort so that Quesa knows which 
>objects have basically become static and have not changed from frame 
>to frame so that it does not need to keep building them as GL calls 
>everyframe?

I'm curious about these too.  My users are bugging me about alleged 
poor performance on Quesa, but I haven't yet found the time to do any 
profiling, so I'm riding on Chris's coat-tails.

Thanks,
- Joe

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