[Bf-committers] 2.28a release & meeting notes

[John K. Walton]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > there are serious performance
> > problems in 3d window with ghost based versions. mips3, or older
> > O2's suffer from annoying lag when rotating (and stuff), as if it's
> > polling at a low rate and missing the mouse action. once the action
> > gets going, it's ok.impact type systems (which were the only ones
> > after early blender days) never had this problem.
> 
> I am pretty much sure it's just a matter of Blender finetuning here...  
> Ghost really just uses plain X11 stuff, it hardly does anything with  
> OpenGL, except assigning a 'context' to a window. Might well be not  
> because of Ghost, but some other 'improvement'... ;-)

well, there was the international font fiasco that blew the doors
off the performance problems :-)

the reseaon i blame ghost, was that was naturally what changed when the
problems arose :-)
 
> I also vaguely remember someone else reporting an annyong slowdown for  
> some systems, especially in quick feedback of the Blender interface.
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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