assignment statements, and then a "long sequence of commands needed to
set up the 3D rendering pipe". Is any of that setup redundant and
could it be easily eliminated?
+
+I noticed two calls to i830WaitSync which seemed to have "slowdown"
+written all over them. But I ran with these two calls removed and
+didn't notice any change in the performance, (and if they were causing
+a problem, shouldn't they have shown up separately in the profile
+anyway?).