aeilkema opened this issue on Sep 05, 2009 · 142 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 09 September 2009 at 7:40 AM
I agree that an IDL render has to be slower than without IDL, ice-boy.
I don't think aeilkema is arguing it should be the same speed.
Aeilkema is making a quantitative argument, and, ice-boy, you're answering as if he made a qualitative argument.
Break it down. I'm going to make several test statements, and I bet both of you disagree with the first and the last.
IDL can and should render at the same speed as without it.
IDL cannot render at the same speed as without it, but IDL should be about 10% more render time.
3) IDL should be about 50% extra render time.
4) IDL should be about 100% extra render time.
5) IDL should be about 1000% extra render time.
6) IDL should be about infinite extra render time.
Everybody with me? 1 and 6 are wrong. (No caps, not shouting, see?) Anybody who thinks otherwise, stand over here and I'll hit you with tomatoes.
Now somewhere in the middle things become believable. But where exactly?
The released version of Poser is like #5. It takes 10 times longer. I think it should not. SR1 behaves like #3 or #4 most of the time. That's where I think it should be.
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