Thanks for the info Hans.
Has anyone compared performance of something like processing and libpd with the pd gui?
I downloaded all the stuff for compiling that and got to the point of making a project in eclipse and got errors with the hello example. With the examples and parts spread across multiple sites bouncing back an forth between them gets very confusing. Seems like JAVA is quicker now than it was 10 years ago but maybe its just the machines are faster.
Has anyone figured out what is the fastest graphics library across all platforms?
I might be able to outline a guideline for drawing a million points in a 100 pixels by 100 pixels when the million points is in shared memory being updated by multiple processes