Balloon 3D
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon May 28 18:57:29 UTC 2007
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 at 400 with 25fps.
That was my hunch too, but without measuring I didn't want to loose a
bet that easily ;)
- Bert -
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