deform or material->deform - which is better?

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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I was told internally here that when we tried in the past to go through the deform sop, things were much slower than our usual method (i.e. use the deform tab in the material).

is that still the case?
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The Deform SOP is done on the CPU. The deform in the MATs is done on the GPU in hardware, so yes its far faster.