Re: DrawElements faster than DrawArrays

Hi,

I admit that I did not do any performance analysis on Mac, but still 
this is hard to believe... what exactly has been tested, on what 
machines using what GPUs ( and thus drivers )?

Anyway, an indexed geometry base class would still be nice to have. And 
yes, this would be a subclass of G3DGeometry.

cheers,

-Phil

On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 08:26 PM, Brent Gulanowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I posted a question on the iDevGames forums about vertex submission 
> paths and relative speed, and was surprised to learn that (on Macs at 
> least) glDrawElements() is notably faster (5-7%) than glDrawArrays() in 
> most systems. I was wondering if this is the case on other platforms 
> where G3DKit is being used, and if it would thus be worth producing an 
> indexed-array geometryBackend class. I suppose it would be an 
> additional subclass of the new G3DGeometryBackend class.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brent
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