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Re: particle container in Java

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From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Subject	Re: particle container in Java
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On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:16:03 -0700, BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>I try where possible to keep things in the 40-60fps range,

Another totally different approach is to fob the work off on the GPU.
I have not coded at low level for a very long time, so I don't know
what modern video cards can do, and how standard the APIs are.

But, it seem to me what you are doing is common to many games, and
surely modern video cards have some way of helping out.  They have
some skookum processing power.  I would think some parallel processing
hardware would really make this sort of thing fly.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Capitalism has spurred the competition that makes CPUs faster and 
faster each year, but the focus on money makes software manufacturers 
do some peculiar things like deliberately leaving bugs and deficiencies
in the software so they can soak the customers for upgrades later.
Whether software is easy to use, or never loses data, when the company
has a near monopoly, is almost irrelevant to profits, and therefore 
ignored. The manufacturer focuses on cheap gimicks like dancing paper 
clips to dazzle naive first-time buyers. The needs of existing 
experienced users are almost irrelevant. I see software rental as the 
best remedy.

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particle container in Java bob <bob@coolgroups.com> - 2011-11-03 01:05 -0700
  Re: particle container in Java Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-03 08:33 +0000
  Re: particle container in Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-03 08:12 -0700
    Re: particle container in Java BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 13:51 -0700
      Re: particle container in Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-04 15:54 -0700
        Re: particle container in Java BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-04 19:48 -0700
          Re: particle container in Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-05 06:42 -0700
  Re: particle container in Java Giovanni Azua <bravegag@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 23:38 +0100
    Re: particle container in Java BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-03 22:41 -0700
      Re: particle container in Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-05 06:49 -0700
        Re: particle container in Java BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-05 09:16 -0700
          Re: particle container in Java Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-06 03:07 -0800
            Re: particle container in Java Giovanni Azua <bravegag@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-06 15:15 +0100
              Re: particle container in Java BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-06 11:06 -0700
  Re: particle container in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-03 19:03 -0400

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