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burns linux
Sun Dec 4 18:22:28 PST 2005


On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:17, Net Llama! wrote:

>
> I don't think its changed, in fact I think the opposite has occurred.
> If you've got 8GB of geologic data you need to visualize, or if you have
> 32GB of CAD data that you need to model, or if you have to render
> golum's entire body, you can't really do that if you have less than 2GB
> of RAM, unless you want the box to swap itself to death as its passing
> the data back & forth between system memory & video memory.
>
> OpenGL is a bit of a pig when it comes to memory usage, but that's not
> Linux's fault.


Ahhhh, graphics. I wasn't thinking of that when I posed the query.

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Burns


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