PyOpenGL uses ctypes for a 145% performance improvement

Category: Developers •

Jun 04, 2007

Following last month’s POGL vs PyOpenGL benchmark, Graphcomp received numerous suggestions from the Python community on ways to improve PyOpenGL’s numbers. Most made no measurable difference - however, the suggestion to use ctypes (a Python Foreign Function Interface module) resulted in a 145% improvement in PyOpenGL performance. Read more about OpenGL Perl vs Python performance at http://graphcomp.com/opengl/benchmarks. Includes comments from PyOpenGL’s author explaining performance factors.