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  From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:11:31 -0700 (PDT)

RE: LibGGI3D RFC

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:

> : 	Might want to look into caching within the display target.  You
> : could preload the target's cache by doing the pointer lookup once and
> : dumping the data into the cache at the start of rendering.  Or even
> : persistent caching from render op to render op, if this was appropriate.
> 
> If you are talking about caching the vertex data, this will only be useful
> if you put geometry accelration into LibGGI3D and allow the application to
> tweak matrices.

	Either that or just dump the vertices to geometry-accelerating
hardware.  MMX and friends would help a lot with the software geometry
stuff.

Jon

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