...5.3.

IRIX is the SGI version of the Unix operating system. Most of the facilities described were originally developed for IRIX 5.2.

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The presented results showed immediate mode OpenGL graphics performance using indirect rendering ranging from 34 to 68 of the direct rendering performance depending on the model of SGI graphics workstation. The faster the graphics hardware, the higher the relative penalty for using indirect rendering versus direct rendering due to the higher relative overhead of indirect rendering.

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