Not really. Although I heard Mike Acton was asked to fix Ogre3D Node class, and it resulted in a 5x speedup (in a video linked on HN). I don't know what Ogre3D

Not really. Although I heard Mike Acton was asked to fix Ogre3D Node class, and it resulted in a 5x speedup (in a video linked on HN). I don't know what Ogre3D 2.0 will look like, I did not try the RC, I don't know if it's usable without a scenemanager or scenenodes. I wish it was.