But it seems like, unlike games and demos, most programmers are using "APIs" for there memory management. So I don't think switching to hardware would do anything but speed things up.
True, programmers use APIs for memory management, but what do these APIs call? malloc(), more than likely.
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Of course Linux will probably never have something comparable to directX
What's wrong with OpenGL? Or am I missing something?
But it seems like, unlike games and demos, most programmers are using "APIs" for there memory management. So I don't think switching to hardware would do anything but speed things up.
True, programmers use APIs for memory management, but what do these APIs call? malloc(), more than likely.