[vtk-developers] About the vtkDataArray::InsertTuple() method

[Bill Lorensen]

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On Mar 24, 2016 9:43 AM, "Will Schroeder" <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:11 PM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone else want to share an opinion?
>
>
> Polishing the API and code is a good thing, and we've seen a lot of
> organic growth and improvement over the 22+ years VTK has been in
> existence. Done thoughtfully with minimal disruption I am fine with it.
>
> Having said that, I think there is sometimes a tendency to get caught up
> in too much polishing and software process and forget core algorithmic and
> performance concerns. There are so many algorithms and emerging computing
> technologies that we need to integrate and/or add into VTK. For me APIs are
> a secondary concern to capability. For example, I think that STL's API
> absolutely sucks but I use it because the implementation is often quite
> good, and it provides capabilities that benefit me, so I put up with the
> API. Another example is the recent OpenGL2 work: we could have revamped the
> API/design since there are arguable deficiencies in the
> lights/cameras/actors model, but Ken & Team made the hard to decision to
> mostly preserve the API warts and all and rework the inner workings seeing
> 10-100x performance gains with little impact on current applications except
> that they are a lot faster. That makes customers really happy. Changing API
> makes them really mad. Before we were constantly getting complaints about
> rendering speed, rarely about API, and now those rendering complaints seem
> to be mostly gone.
>
> Long term VTK will thrive because it's up to snuff in terms of current
> algorithms and computing capabilities. A perfect API will not prevent it's
> death. Surely it's a balance, I get that, but IMO I'd like to see more
> cycles go into algorithms, computing, and performance.
>
> Best,
> W
>
>
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