Re: [Visualpython-users] Philosophical question

[Dethe E. <de...@al...>]

> > But I'm not asking about the pure-Python version, I'm asking about
Python
> > + pyOpenGL
> > + Numeric.  What I wanted to know is how much of what VPython does goes
> > beyond
> > what pyOpenGL and Numeric have already ported to C?  And the answer
seems
> > to be,
> > quite a bit: maintaining double-precision floating point and error
> > checking especially.
>
> What Dave Scherer was describing was indeed Python+PyOpenGL+Numeric.
> It was precisely this combination that was not nearly fast enough to be
> usable.

OK, thanks!  That's what I was trying to find out.  Do you think it is the
specific kind of
work being done by VPython, or performance problems with pyOpenGL in
general?

--Dethe