Re: quesa/Development/Source/Renderers/Interactive IRGeometry.c,1.46,1.47

[Dair G. <da...@re...>]

Roger Holmes wrote:

>Marginally, but I do a lot of testing with the debugging version, and
>I think sqrt is quite a slow function even on a G4 or G5.

Sure, although we should really be using the PPC-specific root
approximations which I suspect would mitigate the cost.


>> Yes, I've always thought kQ3RealZero was an odd name for something
>> that isn't really zero. :-)
>>
>> Perhaps kQ3Epsilon, since that's really what it's used for (and maps
>> to FLT_EPSILON if that's available).
>
>Yes that would be better. Is it public ?

No, just thinking we could add kQ3Epsilon and use that as the preferred
name then map kQ3RealZero for backwards compatibility.


-dair
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