[vtk-developers] VTK 5.0 branch in mid-August

[Will Schroeder]

Bill-

Sorry for the delay, I'm at Siggraph preparing for the open-source 
panel. It should be fun, there are guys from Digital Domain, ILM, 
Dreamworks and Blender on the panel...I'm the token sci-viz guy I guess :-)

Ken reworked the pipeline pretty hard. From what I understand he got 
the times down from 10x to something like 4x (vs VTK44) for thousands 
of actors . He also added the ability to turn off updates altogether 
on the mapper. When this is done, VTK5.0 is something like 33% faster 
than VTK44. While not perfect, I think the lack of a recent release 
is more of a problem at this point than the pipeline issues.

Will

At 04:57 PM 7/31/2005, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>Will,
>Have the performance issues with VTK 5.0 been addressed?
>
>Bill
>
>At 01:44 PM 7/31/2005, you wrote:
>>Folks-
>>
>>Unless I hear some compelling reasons, we are looking at a 
>>tentative date of mid-August to branch VTK 5.0. It's time to get 
>>something out, and the revamped pipeline is stable. I would like to 
>>ask all of you to please help us return the VTK dashboard to a 
>>squeaky green state, and avoid checking in any fragile code at this 
>>point. Dave Cole here at Kitware is going to help me with this; 
>>both of us are feeling militant with big sticks right now so don't 
>>be surprised to hear from us if some of your code is problematic.
>>
>>I'd like to hear your feedback if you have comments or concerns. Thanks,
>>Will
>>
>>
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