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From: smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov ("Howard C. Smith")
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Subject: Relative GL costs
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Date: 4 Apr 91 15:09:33 GMT
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	Speaking of performance...

	Does anyone have numbers as to the relative cost of  
particular GL calls? (for each machine in the 4D series). Maybe all  
normalized as a percentage of gconfig (presumably the most  
expensive). 


	What I would like to see is a breakdown of timing :
	GL call		cycles
---------------------------------------------------------
	gconfig		100000.00
	v		12.00
	swapbuffers	32.00
	pnt		32.00
	clear		34.00

	etc
	etc

	Howard Smith
	smith@nextone.niehs.nih.gov