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I'm not a hardware guy, but it's been my understanding that this is why drivers exist. Drivers are a nightmare, though. I don't miss dealing with them.
by elliottkember 16y ago
I'm not a hardware guy, but it's been my understanding that this is why drivers exist. Drivers are a nightmare, though. I don't miss dealing with them.
- pohl 16y agoDrivers may provide you semantic uniformity over a diverse set of hardware, but I think Sweeny sounds more interested in performance guarantees, which they may not be able to provide, depending both on the hardware and how well the driver has been optimized.
- geon 16y ago> this is why drivers exist Having a uniform interface for all hardware is great, but doesn't solve the specific problem here. There are so many variables that affects performance. Some of them are: * Graphics card fillrate * Graphics card memory size * Graphics card buss speed * CPU speed * CPU cache size * RAM Size * RAM speed * Optical disk speed * Harddrive speed * Harddrive cache size You need to make tradeoffs based on how they affect your particular application.