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Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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Date: 
Mon, 17 May 2004 20:01:47 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > 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, removing, and moving pieces on the fly, so in theory can make
> > optimizations that can't be made in an editor.
> > 
> > As a consequence, despite how my previous posts may have appeared, I'm really
> > not trying to compare the performance between the two.  However, having said
> > that, many optimizations are appropriate to both an editor and a viewer.
> 
> 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
> 
> The load time seems pretty zippy compared to what we're hearing in this
> thread.  Is that because creating display lists in video memory is really
> slow?  The l3lab file loading source code is available.  Maybe there's
> an idea or two in there.
> 
> Travis, can you see if l3lab is any faster on your more modern hardware?


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



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  Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
 
(...) Well, for what it's worth, here are my numbers on a P4 2.4GHz, ATI 9700 Pro 128MB: Load: 3437 ms Draw: 1907 ms It's worth noting that if I load the file a second time, the load portion drops to 313 ms, so the only way to be sure that disk (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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  Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)

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