[MINC-development] Welcome

[Andrew Janke]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Steve ROBBINS wrote:

> > The main reason for this because VTK is multi-threaded.
>
> Really?  So if you profile them on a single CPU machine, the
> MINC code is roughly as fast as the VTK code?  If so, I'm impressed:
> I thought it would be a lot slower.  Volume_io is riddled with switch
> statements (based on number type) that I thought would stall the
> CPU pipelining.

Although you can bypass a lot of these and directly access the underlying macros
should you wish too.  However the speed gained in doing this is often not all
that great. :)   Well, in the tests I have done anyway.



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