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(...) On my laptop with a Pentium-M 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000: Timing: Load: 3325 ms Draw: 3164 ms On my desktop with a P4 3Ghz, 1GB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB: Timing: Load: 2062 ms Draw: 1204 ms -Orion (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Since we seem to be talking about performance measurements, what do you think about comparing the the current yardstick: l3lab? On my fairly old 500Mhz PC with a TNT video card l3lab prints this for stats. Timing: Load: 1222 ms Draw: 8442 ms (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Do you have thoughts on how to deal with parts whose authors have been out of touch, and are unreachable? Any idea how many parts that affects, if say, we can't reach them and get them to agree to the license? -Tim (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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One thing I've forgotten to mention in my previous replies is that it's really unfair to compare the performance of an editor (MBC) with a viewer (LDView), even if both are running on the same machine. A viewer doesn't have to worry about adding, (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Your expectation is certainly justified. I don't know what the driver architecture is on the Mac, but I suspect that the video hardware manufacturers are responsible for the OpenGL implementation for their own hardware, just like on the PC. If (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I have a few comments--based on my experience writing LDView--that I think could improve your load performance. First of all, I believe what you are saying above (and a little later in your post) is that you only cache complete bricks. If this (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) Yes it's deffinately there, I must have misread the page. I've tracked down the quote that was was looking for too :) "With LDraw-dot-org going more and more formal making sure that our hobby doesn't get ruled too much.", Willy Tschager. Peter (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I removed the artilce form the front page as it is no longer needed. You can, however, access all the news articles via the News Archive link (you may have to click the See All link to get to the really old articles). -Orion (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Peter Howkins wrote: More on the rest of this later. (probably in a separate thread which focuses on the license issue) (...) I'm not sure what you mean. I just checked and the candidate summary article (290) is still (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Glad to hear there was a fast decision :) and you right it's not a big deal, it's just I hate the idea that stuff like this would take up lots of time. (...) The only issue I can see with PD is that the part authors might object to someone (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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