Solved: Cloning pfGeodes 243K per geodegroup?

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Jonas Andersson (jonasa++at++cs.umu.se)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 14:34:30 +0200 (MDT)

Eh (blushing), I was calling pfdLoadFile instead of duplicate for half of
the subtrees. Getting rid of that certainly made a difference. Everything
works fine now.

  Jonas

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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jonas Andersson wrote:

> Questions:
>
> Are there any routines that will duplicate a geode and its geosets?
> How can I compute/check how much space a given subtree is using?
> Is it reasonably that two groups and three geodes with three quads each
> needs 243K of memory?
>
>
> Problem:
> I have made my own geode-duplication routine which simply
> creates a new geode with new geosets.
> When using this routine I am first cloning two groups using
> pfNode->clone() then calling my duplication routine on three geodes
> containing three quads each with normals, colors, and texture coords..
>
> After one such clone and duplication _243K_ has been used!!!
>
> This definitely does not seem reasonably to me, can anybody come up with
> any idea or explanation for this?
> I am not copying geostates so the memory can not be due to multiple
> texture copies.
>
> PS. I have estimated the amount of memory used by counting made clones for
> different PFSHAREDSIZES, for example 1600 clones with arenasize ~323Mb.DS.
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies
> Jonas
>
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TTFN
  Jonas

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