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The benchmark in "Texture Mode" just shot my system as well. (Older MacPro, Firefox 65.0.1) No visual response anymore / hard system reset required. This is wh
by masswerk 8y ago
The benchmark in "Texture Mode" just shot my system as well. (Older MacPro, Firefox 65.0.1) No visual response anymore / hard system reset required.
This is why computing on the GPU with code loaded by a web page isn't a good idea.
- EForEndeavour 8y agoIt's amazing how quickly my attitude toward the idea of GPU-accelerated JavaScript flipped from "awesome idea, let's check out the comments!" to "how about no."
- AstralStorm 8y agoIdea is great, GPU OSes (called firmware to disguise complexity) are about as good as Windows 95 but much more complex. No virtualization yet, very little memory safety, expected use case is single big task.