[vtkusers] Somehow mesa-12 first rendering is slow

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-07-14 15:16 GMT+02:00 Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com>:

> Just one other question regarding your use of these builds: Are these Mesa
>> builds with software rasterizers something you ship with Paraview as a
>> fallback for when hardware is not up to snuff, or for other certain
>> situations? Or will you always be using software rendering (OpenSWR?) going
>> forward? No hardware?
>>
>
> It's entirely for a fallback.  The preference is to always use the native
> GPU for OpenGL rendering.  When various situations have a need for software
> rendering (thin clients, for example), the system supplied Mesa is usually
> insufficient to provide an adequate OpenGL version so we ship mesa binaries
> with the ParaView clients and giv the user an explicit option to manually
> use them if needed (it won't happen automatically).
>

Thanks for clarifying, and that makes sense.

Elvis
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