Linux + Quadro 4000

(closed source nvidia driver)

Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GPU: Quadro 4000/PCIe/SSE2
Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157

Raw glVertex3f performance - tiny polygon count (OpenGL 1.0):
   151k polygons at 60 fps max
        (9116120 poly/sec)
        (9116120 pairs/sec when each glBein/gl…

Using profiling to inform coding decisions; a real life example.  

To start off, I added the ability for ships to respawn. Giving some forgiveness if the player dies.

That works by adding a spawn component to the entity that needs to respawn fighter ships.

When respawning, you need to know how lo…