Ian Mallett wrote:
Don't tell Silicon Graphics, but I've found pygame is much much faster at 2D.
That's rather surprising, assuming you have hardware acceleration. It probably has to do with how you're sending the coordinates to OpenGL. Making lots of calls to glVertex() from Python will be inefficient, even more so than it would in C, due to the slowness of Python function calls. Putting your coordinates into an array and using one of the array-oriented calls ought to be a lot better. Another useful technique is to put frequently-used sequences of operations into display lists, then you can invoke them with just a single Python call. -- Greg
