Here’s kind of a dumb quick question, I’m playing around with some vector math for my engine, and I’m seeing places where I have choices to use Trig or straight algebra…(mostly to calculate distances and vector components)
Well, here’s the question: Is it generally faster and better to perform trig functions like sin and cos, or to perform square roots? (Is there any hardware acceleration involved in either of them?) I know that square roots are slow, but they may be a necessary evil in calculating distances…
Does anybody have any suggestions about this?
(Oh yeah, sorry that this isn’t directly OpenGL realated)
-Thanks! 