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Codeplay Responds to NVidia's Cg

Posted by michael on from the my-megapixels-are-bigger-than-yours dept.

Da Masta writes "Codeplay Director Andrew Richards has some interesting things to say about NVidia's Cg graphics language. Just to refresh, Codeplay is the company that publishes Vector C, the badassed, high performance C compiler. In brief, it seems as though Cg isn't the universal, standard graphics language some pass it off to be. Certain design considerations in the language, such as the lack of integers, break/continue/goto/case/switch structures, and pointers suggest a general lack of universal usefulness. This leads to suspicion that NVidia plans to add and tailor the language in the future according to its own hardware and their respective features. Of course, this is all old news to those of us who noticed NVidia co-developed the language with the Evil Empire."

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  1. get out while you can by ccoder · · Score: 0, Troll

    j00 s3rve the dev1l!

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    "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" -- George Orwell
  2. This leads to suspicion that NVidia plans to add a by t0qer · · Score: 3, Troll

    This leads to suspicion that NVidia plans to add and tailor the language in the future according to its own hardware and their respective features.

    Smells like glide!