When I read this, I feel old. When I dabbled in 3D graphics back in the day, you were not supposed to use (DirectX) retained mode. Immediate mode was the faster

When I read this, I feel old. When I dabbled in 3D graphics back in the day, you were not supposed to use (DirectX) retained mode. Immediate mode was the faster and closer to hardware option. I know the terms mean something else than 15 years ago (retained was a scenegraph model, put a box here, a model there; whereas immediate meant draw triangles yourself every frame), but still :-).