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Other Considerations
One of the main advantages has already been presented in this tutorial: a considerable performance gain may be achievable when the implementation is optimized for display lists.
Display lists are to a certain extent immutable, i.e. there is no way to change the settings for a particular command after it is inserted in a display list. However when a display list is nested only a reference to the display list is included. This means that if the inner display list is modified then the outer display list gets changed.
If you no longer need a particular display list then you can delete it with the function glDeleteLists. This function allows you to display a contiguous range of lists.
void glDeleteLists(GLuint listID, GLsizei numberOfLists);
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