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Why is SDL so slow?

Brien Shrimp · 2003-06-12T14:02:08

Yikes. I wanted to try SDL (http://www.libsdl.org/). I was pointed to a set of tutorials at Cone3D: (http://cone3d.gamedev.net/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=tutorials/gfxsdl/index ). And so I wrote a simple frame for SDL projects in VC++ Dot Net. Wow. All it's doing is initalizing SDL and the SDL_mixer library but when I compile and run, it's taking 100% of my cpu usage and 8 friggen megs of RAM (have an AthlonXP 1800+). I've written complete (yet simple) games with GLUT that only take 8% of my cpu time and maybe 6 MB of RAM, max. And this is without optimization. I'm either doing something wrong or SDL is far too inefficent for me to waste my time on. I'm no good at optimization yet. [edited by - Brien Shrimp on June 4, 2003 7:10:32 PM]

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Started by Brien Shrimp June 04, 2003 06:06 PM

30 comments, last by Brien Shrimp 20 years, 10 months ago

Pipo DeClown

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June 11, 2003 07:11 AM

CPU usage, hasn't got anything to do with 2D or 3D. 3D is fast because of HardWare acceleration. Not CPU speed. wihtout it, it would be 300x as slow as 2D. i think

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