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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by gnarbarian on Thursday February 11, 2016 @08:02AM (#11079836)
Vulkan is next. Opengl dominated for quite a while. 10 years? after it beat glide. The hardware has changed enough to warrant a new standard which is where the gpgpu language explosion is coming from.
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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by douche on Thursday February 11, 2016 @08:17AM (#11079899)
OpenGL dominated? Not anywhere where people had better alternatives. Windows/XBox had DirectX, other console makers had their own proprietary libraries.
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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by Chyzwar on Thursday February 11, 2016 @08:44AM (#11080027)
What do you think is used on mobile.
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Re:The chips are down for Moore’s law by creshal on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:01AM (#11080114)
DirectX on Windows Phone, Metal on iOS; and mobile GPU vendors are one of the driving forces behind Vulkan, as OpenGL (ES) is just too shitty to keep using.
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