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Software Rendering Engine GPU-Accelerated By WebCL

Posted by Soulskill on from the expanding-options dept.

Phopojijo writes "OpenGL and DirectX have been the dominant real-time graphics APIs for decades. Both are catalogs of functions which convert geometry into images using predetermined mathematical algorithms (scanline rendering, triangles, etc.). Software rendering engines calculate colour values directly from the fundamental math. Reliance on OpenGL and DirectX could diminish when GPUs are utilized as general 'large batches of math' solvers which software rendering engines offload to. Developers would then be able to choose their algorithms for best suits their project, even native to web browsers with the upcoming WebCL."

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  1. STAAAAAHP! by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Developers would then be able to choose their algorithms for best suits their project, even native to web browsers with the upcoming WebCL."

    If web browsers were people, that statement would have caused a mass suicide of them. Guys, stop trying to turn the browser into a platform. It introduces so many layers of complexity and security issues that it's a miracle anyone has any trust or faith in the internet at all. It's getting to the point where the only way to safely browse the net is to shove the entire browser into a virtual machine... and even that only manages to protect your own computer, say nothing of your online activities, credentials, life, etc.

    We need to be making browsers simpler, not more complex. Feature bloat is making these things a leper's colony inside your computer... a cesspool of malware and vulnerability. Don't add to it by coming up with some new way for developers to directly access the hardware of your computer because you're too fucking lazy to write an app to do whatever it is, and want to cram it into the browser instead. You're just encouraging them.

    Seriously, we need a 12 step program for these "web 2.0" people.

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    #fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
    1. Re:STAAAAAHP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yeah, they really missed the boat not freezing computing in the 70s. These kids and wanting features and interesting applications and useful computing are a bunch of assholes. They should be forced to do things MY preferred way because my opinion is the only one that matters.

      Fucking slashtards.

    2. Re:STAAAAAHP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Guys, stop trying to turn the browser into a platform.

      No. Or "too late", rather.

      these "web 2.0" people

      These "web 2.0" people are going to continue to ignore you until what you espouse is as obviously stupid to everyone as it is to them. I'm not sure it isn't already.

    3. Re:STAAAAAHP! by blahplusplus · · Score: 3, Insightful

      " stop trying to turn the browser into a platform."

      The reason why they are doing this, is the big push by major industries for more DRM. Although current DRM is ineffective against more technically inclined people. They want to eventually be able to encrypt and split up programs and data tying them to the server. Just like how diablo 3 took part of the program hostage across the internet and you had to constantly 'get permission' to continue playing the game.

      If you think big companies are not looking at what the game industry and others are doing locking down apps, then you haven't been paying attention.