Re: [JAVA3D] Altivec and Java3D and Vecmath

2003-02-19 Thread Ian M Nieves
Mark, I understand your points, but disagree. It is true that native code is needed to use Altivec instructions. Therefore, you are right that optimisations like these would have to cross the JNI boundary. Therefore, it is clear to me that for small amounts of data or processing, Altivec gains a

Re: [JAVA3D] Altivec and Java3D and Vecmath

2003-02-18 Thread Mark Hood
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:50:44 -0700 > From: Ian Nieves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I wanted to use this email to get people thinking about how Altivec can > increase the performance of Java3D applications. That is, I hope to see > responses to this email. Someone else also posted a questi

[JAVA3D] Altivec and Java3D and Vecmath

2003-02-16 Thread Ian Nieves
Hello All, (especially Sun engineers) I wanted to use this email to get people thinking about how Altivec can increase the performance of Java3D applications. That is, I hope to see responses to this email. I know Java3D is not yet supported on the macintosh platform, and I know that most of u