mmm ok, thanks for everything guys, it appears I'm just a tard. I was running the project in debug mode, once I switched to release the fps shot up to about 1600.

void draw(){
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

Segment* s;
Vector out;
Vector norm;
bool todraw[WINDOW_HEIGHT][WINDOW_WIDTH];
...

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Although it didn't help as much as I thought it would, only got around a 1 fps increase.

Ya, I know, unfortunately opengl is required for the assignment :(

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