Re: Sorting in 2.0

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John Rohlf (jrohlf++at++tubes)
Fri, 30 Jun 95 15:46:42 PDT

>
> On Jun 20, 9:44am, John Rohlf wrote:
>
> > 2.0 has sophisticated sorting features including:
> >
> > - sorting within pre/post draw callbacks
> >
> > - user-configurable state sorting hierarchy; you can sort by any
> > PFSTATE_ elements in any order
> >
> > - front-to-back or back-to-front spatial sorting
> >
> > - coarse specification of rendering order provided by "draw bins", e.g. -
> > the OPAQUE bin is drawn before the TRANSP bin
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from John Rohlf
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have statistics on timings for the sort operations in a generic
> test database for the different modes and different CPU configs ?

        I have no special statistics. It's usually best to experiment
with your own database since things are so variable.

>
> In the new multiproc culling, can you assign a separte process just to sort
> the database back to front ?

        This portion of the sort is currently not multithreaded.

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