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Re:Show HN: Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft by Filligree on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @08:18AM (#14855506)
> We learned that we were doing rendering very inefficiently, using "static" when we should have done stream.

Can you expand on this? Did you use 'static' for VBOs that were only used for one or two frames?

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Re:Show HN: Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft by traverseda on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:26AM (#14856402)
I can not. Graphics aren't my thing. All I can say was that there was quantifiable improvement.

But that's the beauty of open source. If you'd like to investigate it yourself it's the first issue. Getting someone competent involved in the graphics subsystem is another priority ;p

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Re:Show HN: Teachcraft – Learn Python through Minecraft by j_s on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @10:34AM (#14856485)
https://github.com/traverseda/pycraft/issues/89
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