SDL vs. Mesa

SDL Development
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Has anyone done a performance comparison between SDL and the Mesa
lib? Is there any performance decrease using OGL thorugh SDL?

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In article <Pine.OSF.4.21.0003061358270.11754-100000 at cpu.wpi.edu>, Garrett Robert Banuk wrote:

Has anyone done a performance comparison between SDL and the Mesa
lib? Is there any performance decrease using OGL thorugh SDL?

SDL just masks the opengl context creation, to allow for easy cross platform coding.
The library still uses the underlying framework -> which is mostly mesa/glx for linux
now.

Thus there really shouldn’t be performance decreases at hand.--------------------------------------------------------------
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hi

Garrett Robert Banuk schrieb:

    Has anyone done a performance comparison between SDL and the Mesa

lib? Is there any performance decrease using OGL thorugh SDL?

Due to the way OpenGL support is integrated there is NO performance
loss.–
Daniel Vogel (mailing froma a friends house)

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They have no relation whatsoever, other than that Mesa provides a fake
GLX implementation which SDL usually hooks into to provide a
window/context for apps wishing to use OpenGL. Mesa is still the
actual rendering API.

m.On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:59:54PM -0500, Garrett Robert Banuk wrote:

Has anyone done a performance comparison between SDL and the Mesa
lib? Is there any performance decrease using OGL thorugh SDL?

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