[Fluxus] obj loading speed

[Dave Griffiths]

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 16:06 +0100, gabor papp wrote:
> hi Dave,
> 
> > It's a long time since I looked at this code, but could it test if all
> > the indices were the same for a vertex and skip the processing?
> good idea! i did this and the loading time dropped to 1.4 seconds. the 
> file size increased from 1.2mb to 4.8mb, so now only basically line 
> processing and tokenization take time. with a 3.8mb obj file the loading 
> time was about 30 seconds, with the optimized version it went down to 16 
> seconds, and now it's about 4.3 seconds if all the indices are the same 
> (file size increased to 15megs).

How does this compare to the speed that (for example) blender takes to
load the same file? It's pretty quick isn't it, from what I remember? Do
you think we are doing something wrong...

cheers,

dave