Since Lincity GLES1 discussions, I was helping (just a little) to investigate HomeworldSDL performance issues. As a result, I'm no longer surprised, that GLES1 doesn't give us performance benefits - according to freemangordon, GLES1 is emulated entirely (or almost entirely) on our devices, meaning that it runs on CPU, this or another way.

For "real" hardware accel., we would need GLES2, which is whole different beast, and rewrite wouldn't be trivial, sadly

/Estel