old vs. new style drawing on the Personal IRIS

[Kurt Akeley]

In article <9104222144.AA26082 at chem.chem.ucsd.edu>, sdempsey at UCSD.EDU (Steve Dempsey) writes:

|> Will the performance penalty for using the "high performance" vertex drawing
|> functions on the Personal IRIS go away with IRIX 4.0, or is this embedded
|> in the graphics hardware of the PI?
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I know of no plans to retune the Personal Iris family for the 4.0 release.
Such tuning would require microcode changes, so the penalty is related to
the graphics hardware, if not "embedded" in it.

Perhaps someone from the Entry Systems Division will comment?

-- Kurt