Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > computer gaming (yawn)...
> 
> 
> Think again.
> 
> What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance
> hardware you have right now?
> 
> Gaming.
> 
> What is the GPU capable of achieving when parallelized? Well, graphics
> rendering is highly parallelizable and nowadays you see it in render
> farms and Top500 supercomputers. But those didn;t fund it, so what did?
> 
> Graphics cards sold to gamers.
> 
> Graphics cards for gamers are probably the only thing left really
> keeping the pc market as such going. Yes, there are still millions of
> them on corporate desktops but that is a cut-throat market and at
> what-tiny-number-of-bucks a pop? Bread and butter money, it keeps things
> ticking over and pays the rent. But gamers pay for the bling.
> 
> Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that
> you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the
> primary high performance market - gamers.
> 
> Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK, I
> don't play them at all. But the market they make up - that's different.
> Those egg-heads are very important

See previous reply in thread to James. This one was not threaded, but rather,
a reply to the OP, so it makes it look as if you haven't read the thread.

I played one computer game one day in 1990. Lost that entire day to that
stupid game, and never played again. Except...one time for a few hours with a
new friend the second year living in China. He wanted me to play NFS. After
playing a few races with him, I explained that we do this with _real_cars_ on
_real_roads_ in _real_life_ "back in America". It developed from the days of
moonshining, and your car (and you as a driver) weren't anything if you
couldn't outrun the local cops. ;)

My gaming yawn was a poor, and needless, expression of disgust.
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