[Haskell-cafe] Memory efficiency questions for real-time graphics

[Svein Ove Aas]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Tobias Bexelius
<tobias.bexelius at avalanchestudios.se> wrote:
> Before Direct3D 10, its too costly to read back the updated vertex data
> in every frame, which force you to make this kind of operations on the
> CPU.
> With D3D 10 however, you should use the new Stream-Output stage which is
> used to return updated vertex data directly to a vertex buffer on the
> GPU. So if you can afford a new graphics card and likes Vista, that's
> the way to go :)
>
Or you could use OpenGL, which has supported that since the first GPUs
that did were released.