More on SGI program speedups

[jim frost]

>>We happily followed the SGI guide to speed them up. [...] To our great
>>surprise, the following was printed when the new call was made:
>>
>>    <rectread> is not implemented.

>Did you get your "not implemented" on a G or GT. If its on a G (as I
>suspect) how can you expect routines to be implemented that make only
>sense on the GT architecture (another example is smoothline())? I think
>its a good idea to allow you to use the calls, but to tell you that they
>don't work.

The machine is a 4D/70.  Neither the porting guide nor the man page
mentions that the function is only implemented on the GT (if indeed
this is the case), and in fact the porting guide says you should use
the newer routines because "your code will be more portable" and that
"on the GT and future products, the new subroutines will run up to 10
times faster than their old counterparts".

Jim Frost
Associative Design Technology
madd at bu-it.bu.edu