mfbscs
6th January 2002, 04:43
This isn't really a request or a comment or a bug report, just some general questions.
1) The original Geiss was very CPU intensive, your graphics card didn't matter at all. It relied solely on CPU. But MD seems to be just the opposite, it makes much use of the graphics card, and little use of the CPU. Example: I have a 1.33 GHz Athlon and a nVidia GeForce2 MX. I get pretty good results, but I went to my friend's house, who has a 500MHz Pentium 3, and a brand new GeForce3 and he gets much better results than I do. Geiss and MD look pretty similar, how come they utilize your system so differently? I'm just curious, some info on this should be posted on the MD main page.
2) I recall Ryan saying in the documentation for the original Geiss plugin (as you can tell, I'm a long time Geiss fan) that he hand-optimized the x86 assembly code to get it to run as fast as possible. As a programmer, that truly made me happy. I was wondering if he did such optimizations with MD? Also, has he taken advantage of the new instruction sets offered by the Pentium 3 & 4 and the AMD chips as well? Each new chip has new instructions, are they of any help to MD? Any info on this would be great, thanks, bye.
1) The original Geiss was very CPU intensive, your graphics card didn't matter at all. It relied solely on CPU. But MD seems to be just the opposite, it makes much use of the graphics card, and little use of the CPU. Example: I have a 1.33 GHz Athlon and a nVidia GeForce2 MX. I get pretty good results, but I went to my friend's house, who has a 500MHz Pentium 3, and a brand new GeForce3 and he gets much better results than I do. Geiss and MD look pretty similar, how come they utilize your system so differently? I'm just curious, some info on this should be posted on the MD main page.
2) I recall Ryan saying in the documentation for the original Geiss plugin (as you can tell, I'm a long time Geiss fan) that he hand-optimized the x86 assembly code to get it to run as fast as possible. As a programmer, that truly made me happy. I was wondering if he did such optimizations with MD? Also, has he taken advantage of the new instruction sets offered by the Pentium 3 & 4 and the AMD chips as well? Each new chip has new instructions, are they of any help to MD? Any info on this would be great, thanks, bye.