NVIDIA's Pixel & Vertex Shading Language

Barkhausen Criterion writes "NVIDIA have announced a high-level Pixel and Vertex Shading language developed in conjunction with Microsoft. According to this initial look, the "Cg Compiler" compiles high level Pixel and Vertex Shader language into low-level DirectX and OpenGL code. While the press releases are going amok, CG Channel (Computer Graphics Channel) has the most comprehensive look at the technology. The article writes, "Putting on my speculative hat, the motivation is to drive hardware sales by increasing the prevalence of Pixel and Vertex Shader-enabled applications and gaming titles. This would be accomplished by creating a forward-compatible tool for developers to fully utilize the advanced features of current GPUs, and future GPUs/VPUs." "

Comments

Assembly vs. High-level? hmmm....

[rob-fu]

That's like asking which of the following would I rather do...

a) have a 3-way with two hot chicks
b) clean the floor behind my refrigerator

I wonder.

Interesting Comparison

[NitsujTPU]

Did everybody read the comparison between writing in CG and writing hand-optimized assembly code?

Thank GOD they wrote CG, because now I won't have to write all of my programs in assembly anymore.

What is this "compiler" technology that they keep talking about? This might revolutionize computer science!

Re:Good times

[Score Whore]

The next "Amy men" game will be all the sweeter...

Yes, I agree! We all like a good cross-dressing game for the early morning hours at lan parties!

Re:READ THE ARTICLE!

[Anonymous Coward]

an initiative with participation from Microsoft to create a cross-platform, hardware-independent, high-level

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

oh wait I'm OK now....

BLHAAHAHAHAHAHAH

When pigs fly out of my ass and mutate into fine wine!

Microsoft's Participation...

[ackthpt]

Hmm... How long before we have Graphic Card Worms/Subliminal messages...

Segue to someone playing a video game at a high frame rate...

Gee, the more I play this game, the less bad I feel about buying proprietary technology and the angrier I get at those 9 states for disagreeing with the DoJ Settlement. Oh, and I'd like to buy all of Britney Spears CD's and eat every meal at McD's... I'm sure I didn't feel this way yesterday... What's odd, too is that every so many frames seems to flicker something I can't quite make out...

Screen breifly flickers something else

Hmm... I can't remember what I was just thinking about, but I do have the strangest desire to email all of my personal information and credit card numbers to mlm5767848@hotmail.com...