Re: [pygame] is fast opengl a possibility in pygame?

[Jasper <jasper@xxxxxxxx>]

Rene Dudfield wrote:

> Another thing which is faster... believe it or not... is to use
>
> translate/rotate calls instead of pushing and popping the matrix.
>
> glTranslatef(gx,gy,gz)
> glRotatef(grot, grx ,gry ,grz)
> drawBOB();
> glRotatef(grot, -grx ,-gry ,-grz)
> glTranslatef(-gx,-gy,-gz)
>  
I too found my code was faster after I pulled out Push/Pop Matrices 
(simpler too).  Such manipulations turned out to be more expensive than 
I expected at first glance; I didn't run any serious time tests (I was 
happy just that the code was simpler), but it sure felt like it was 
taking longer than setting and reading 16 floats should.

-Jasper