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pulp_user

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    Comment #34971243

    Saying things akin to "your compiler is bad" because it doesn't optimize stuff like this is a cop out. For one: Most compilers for most languages are bad by that metric, and interp…

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    Comment #29351525

    You are complaining about a format - with the stated goal to be very simple - not supporting some scientific usecase. What...? Use a different format then. That's not what this is …

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    Comment #29351462

    What are you even talking about? Using sRGB won't make skin magically orange.

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    Comment #25656903

    (OP here) The main issues I had with them had nothing to do with immediate vs. retained mode, but simply with the unnecessary constraints the big GUI frameworks put on you. Usually…

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    Comment #25638971

    (OP here) The suffering hasn't increased that much. It was all painful before.

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    Comment #25638896

    (OP here) I adressed that caveat in the late part of the answer. I also noted that I don't even think the performance difference is attributable to immediate vs retained mode. This…

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    Comment #25638834

    (OP here) >Are you building vertex buffers? yes >Are you creating backing layers? I am not sure what those are. >Even the immediate mode APIs retain information! Yes, immediate mod…

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    Comment #25638712

    (OP here) I did! And it was enjoyable and didn't take that long (about 2 or 3 weeks initially). I think in the end It actually was still faster to just write the GUI by myself than…