The differences may not always be noticable, but there is a difference. If the Win32 (or MacOS or BeOS, etc) program is written well, it should perform slightly better than with GLUT, but it also depends on your computer. Say you have an extremely fast computer, but your graphics card sucks, then you won't notice the difference because your computer may be executing commands really fast, but your card generating the graphics will be really slow. Anyway, enough on this subject, GLUT is a wrapper, it makes calls to the Win32 API (under Windows), and therefore CANNOT be any faster than Win32!

Morgan

Edited by - Morgan on August 11, 2000 7:50:34 AM

i wouldn''t use either AUX or GLUT whether they make your program slower or no...

making a window doesn''t take that long, just copy & paste it out of another program... that way you don''t have to worry about whether the end user has GLUT.DLL or GLAUX.DLL or whatever is needed