Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question

[Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>]

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Modern graphics libraries essentially treat the GPU like a remote  
host - even over fast PCIe it's far enough away that when you're  
aiming for 16.6ms frame times you can't afford much bus traffic.   
Instead, the intention is that most of your data is resident in GPU  
memory and only a small fraction of the used data is transfered from  
the host every frame.   9P is probably not ideal, but the advantages  
of being able to refer to resources so easily could be compelling.   
I'd love to be able to mount a tar file of textures and vertex  
buffers and have a cache on the GPU manage those for me.  It's a much  
simpler user model than the current myriad ways of setting up  
different data types.

Paul

On 10-Nov-07, at 5:12 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2007 6:28 PM, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
>> If I were going the route of enabling 3D graphics on Plan9 I'd
>> probably flat out ditch the OpenGL model.  Instead...
>
> The little I know of OpenGL led me to think that it was also created
> to be run over a network, but I have no idea how big a mismatch there
> is between the model it assumes and 9P.  I assume you have a better
> view of things?
>
> --Joel

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