On May 28, 2007, at 20:43 , Andreas Raab wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On May 28, 2007, at 19:35 , Cesare Marilungo wrote:
Regarding the OLPC, there's Mesa3D (http://www.mesa3d.org/).
I'd bet that Balloon3D's software renderer is at least as fast as Mesa's. Both are currently too slow for the OLPC (which runs at 1200x900x16 on a performance-challenged 400 Mhz CPU). That's why Mesa is not shipped on the OLPC system.
Unless the Mesa software renderer has seen *significant* work in the last years I would expect the B3D software renderer to beat the hell out of it. I wrote it because back in the days (with 200MHz computers) Mesa was too slow for running the software simulation. Nowadays on my measly 1GHz notebook I can run Wonderland from 3.6 in approx. 600@400 with 25fps.
That was my hunch too, but without measuring I didn't want to loose a bet that easily ;)
- Bert -