Re: Re: [pygame] Old pygame tutorial not working

[Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This stuff was discussed on the pyglet mailing list a while back. One relevant thread is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users/browse_thread/thread/8b35f0e0971939f3


    Richard


> René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Indeed.  Generally strings, lists and tuples are copied in python - so
> the array types are faster.
> 
> Another option is to use ctypes arrays.  However neither ctypes or
> numpy are available on all versions of python... but if you're using
> pyopengl 3.x that uses ctypes already :)
> 
> cu,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > Ian Mallett wrote:
> >
> >> This thread has more moved into: "optimizing opengl landscape 
> loading"
> >> The speed problem is simply the converting the height data into an 
> OpenGL
> >> display list.
> >
> > For that I'd investigate using numpy arrays together with
> > the array-oriented OpenGL calls.
> >
> > --
> > Greg
> >