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Rendering: Same performance results for egl and mesa
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Description
### Intro
Hi there, I am using mujoco in a basic simulation setup (a single ball that is moved in the y-z plain using a parallel gripper).
### My setup
I am rendering a mujoco scene on a server with Ubuntu 24.04 Server installed. The server has a NVidia GPU attached. I managed to get the rendering to work for egl and mesa, where I am rendering to a virtual X server spawned via `xvfb-run`.
### What's happening? What did you expect?
The speed for rendering with `%env MUJOCO_GL=eql` is the same than with `%env MUJOCO_GL=mesa` and `%env MUJOCO_GL=osmesa`. I would the speed to be quite different. Does someone has an idea why this could be the case?
Note that when I set the environment variable to something else like:
```
import os
os.environ['MUJOCO_GL']='foo'
```
this still seems to work (no error when importing mujoco). I wonder therefore if the setting is picked up at all.
### Steps for reproduction
See code and setup described above. See how I managed to get mesa to work on this issue: https://github.com/KyberRobot. https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco/issues/2053#issuecomment-2374457491
### Minimal model for reproduction
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### Code required for reproduction
Code (run from jupyter lab, kernel spawned using `xvfb-run -a python ...`):
```
import os
os.environ['MUJOCO_GL']='egl'
import time
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
import mujoco
from mujoco import viewer
model = mujoco.MjModel.from_xml_path('model/scene.xml')
data = mujoco.MjData(model)
renderer = mujoco.Renderer(model)
tic = time.time()
for i in range(100):
mujoco.mj_step(model, data)
renderer.update_scene(data)
pixels = renderer.render()
print(f"{time.time() - tic:.2f} s") # Prints around 1.63 s for mesa and egl
```
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