pfGeoSet attributes and pfMemory question

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Nicolas Gauvin (nicolas++at++cae.ca)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 13:29:00 -0500

During database paging, I'm reading a big chunk of data from disk
and copying all this data in a single pfMemory array. Parts of this data
contains the various attributes list of pfGeoSets (vertices, tex coords,
colors and normals).

Now I would like to know the risks or consequences involved in setting
the attributes of my pfGeoSet by giving as argument offsets addresses
into this big chunk of data. In other workds I'm using a single
pfMemory for all my pfGeoSet attribute lists instead of using separate ones
for each attribute lists.

In know that in Performer 2.0 it is now highly recommended to use
pfMalloc to allocate arrays of attribute data but what about the
use of a single big pfMemory array?

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