[sldev] Re: [VIEWER] 64 bit status and open source components

[Argent Stonecutter]

Callum Lerwick writes:
> Well, except post-1.18.0.6 has severe performance issues that seem to
> hit x86_64 particularly hard, which DOES seem to be VBO related, the
> limited heap profiles I was able to get did show an awful lot of ram
> being allocated by Mesa for vertexes. I think this might be the same
> bug:
>
> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2303

But Mesa is the CPU-side OpenGL implementation, right? Mesa memory  
allocation would be expected to be associated with excessive memory  
allocation in the GPU on a system equipped with a recent nVidia card  
and using the nVidia driver... not the CPU.