From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Hello
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 12:11:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120608161137.GS163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b53a5ca27910c43d3fd1687130d56334@exys.org>
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:17:04PM +0200, aep wrote:
> >Actually, it might have. Especially with integrated Intel graphics,
> >if I'm not mistaken there is no "video memory"; the graphics
> >controller just uses part of main memory for video purposes, right?
>
> sandy bridge and stuff? I am slighly behind current x86 tech, so i
> don't know, but it's just an implementation detail anyway.
> The hardware part of copying CPU to GPU memory is barely relevant
> anymore.
> GFX nowadays is all about shoving the whole program into the gpu, so
> the cpu can do other things, i.e. GLSL.
The whole conversation was about purely unaccelerated graphics, where
the X server is (or at least historicaly was) constantly memcpy'ing
huge amounts of data out of video memory (e.g. for dragging a window).
GPU is irrelevant to this usage.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-08 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 12:01 Hello orc
2012-06-07 13:13 ` Hello John Spencer
2012-06-07 15:18 ` Hello orc
2012-06-07 16:29 ` Hello John Spencer
2012-06-07 16:19 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-07 17:15 ` Hello orc
2012-06-08 3:31 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-08 5:49 ` Hello Isaac Dunham
2012-06-08 12:28 ` Hello aep
2012-06-08 14:14 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-08 16:17 ` Hello aep
2012-06-08 16:11 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2012-06-09 2:05 ` Hello Isaac Dunham
2012-07-05 17:24 ` Hello orc
2012-07-05 23:34 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-06 6:06 ` Hello orc
2012-07-06 6:26 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-06 8:22 ` Hello orc
2012-07-06 23:14 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-07 0:57 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-07 8:07 ` Hello orc
2012-07-07 15:54 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-08 9:09 ` Hello orc
2012-06-07 17:45 ` Hello Christian Neukirchen
2012-06-07 18:03 ` Hello Jens Staal
2012-06-07 19:10 ` Hello John Spencer
2012-06-07 17:33 ` Hello Jens Staal
2012-06-07 17:59 ` Hello orc
2012-06-20 7:29 ` Hello orc
2012-06-23 1:43 ` Hello idunham
2012-06-23 1:51 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-06-25 12:09 ` Hello orc
2012-06-25 11:59 ` Hello orc
2012-06-25 13:53 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-22 23:09 Hello idunham
2012-07-23 2:01 ` Hello Rich Felker
2012-07-23 3:49 ` Hello idunham
2012-07-23 21:01 ` Hello Rich Felker
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