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OpenGL Is Broken
UPDATE (3/20/2015) If you read this, know that Vulkan has addressed every issue I raise in this article. See my postscript here .
Josh Barczak
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GPU Ray Tracing the Wrong Way
If you’re familiar with my blog, you know I’ve lately taken a fancy to doing abominable things to my Intel GPU’s OpenGL driver.
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Stop Misquoting Donald Knuth
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Considering performance in the small is not “premature optimization”
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You Compiled This, Driver – Trust Me
I was incredibly inspired by Tomasz Stachowiak’s hack of GCN . It made me wish I owned a GCN machine of my own to start trying insane things with. On the other hand, I dooo own an Intel Haswell GPU , and they dooo publish some really dense documentation that’s allegedly enough to write a complete driver with.