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mallgeier YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 5	Lights() in OpenGL mode Nov 27th, 2007, 5:34pm   There seems to be a kind of memory leak or a waste memory). When switching lights on, I can see processing eating away >= 250 kb !!!per second!!! withing the task manager, which then seems to be released by the gc. Maybe lots of new objects are created per frame when we turn on lights.

mallgeier YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 5	Re: Lights() in OpenGL mode Reply #1 - Jan 3rd, 2008, 5:00pm   This bug is within PGraphicsOpenGL.java (P0124):  .directionalLight() and .pointLight() are both calling  .glLightNoAmbient() which creates a new FloatBuffer each time it is invoked, so usually this happens for each frame