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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


  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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