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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: immediate mode graphics versus display-list graphics
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Date: 30 Sep 90 19:26:05 GMT
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In article <1990Sep30.060606.213@morrow.stanford.edu> rick@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rick Ottolini) writes:
>I used to be a supported of Dore/PHIGS because I thought the code was more
>compact and therefore quicker to debug, and now I am not so sure.
>Any comments?

    Display-list systems are less appropriate for dynamic databases
(e.g.  where the geometry is changing every frame).  This will become
an increasingly important issue.
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