Performance differences with POINTS between 1.11 and 2.0

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@davepagurek

If you use LINES shape mode and add a second point 0.001 away from the original in some axis, do you see any performance difference?

I tried this and found that it was very slow in both 1.11 and 2.0.

@davepagurek

The 2.0 reference is available at beta.p5js.org!

Excellent, thank you! I will make good use of this.

@davepagurek

In p5 stroke caps and join styles are all done in the fragment shader so there should be negligible performance difference between them – a round cap is still rendered with just a quad geometry.

OK, I see. This is better than how Processing handles this. Processing draws lots of triangles for the joints, and that makes it harder to write custom shaders for lines.