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Re:Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast by bschwindHN on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:37PM (#18172937)
Wouldn't "super fast game rendering" be done by the GPU via WebGL?
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Re:Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast by rafaelvasco on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:50PM (#18178181)
For 2D games it's much more convenient to pixel push directly than to deal with vertex buffers, index buffers, shaders... Unfortunately graphics cards are not optimized for that scenario.
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Re:Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast by bschwindHN on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:02PM (#18181129)
Convenient, but "super fast"?

And though it's a matter of opinion, I disagree. The GPU is easier for me to use for things like screen-space shading, alpha blending, sprite transformations and distortions, and it all performs much faster than the equivalent CPU render code.

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Re:Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast by ranwired on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:19AM (#18174950)
A lot of game logic also runs on the CPU
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Re:Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @10:15AM (#18176131)
canvas bitmaps are only useful for rendering though.
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