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That doesn’t make any sense. You’re free to write whatever you want. This is Nvidia providing interfaces to their hardware for those of us who don’t want to wr
by jki275 6y ago
That doesn’t make any sense.
You’re free to write whatever you want. This is Nvidia providing interfaces to their hardware for those of us who don’t want to write them for ourselves.
It’s a gift. Take it or don’t. How in the world you can say Nvidia shouldn’t be allowed to write software for their GPUs makes no sense at all. Should the government stop them? Any developer can write anything they want - but Nvidia is obviously going to support their own hardware. How does it make any sense otherwise?
All code is “deprecated in the long term” for a long enough “long term”. That doesn’t equal useless. Your comment is nonsensical.
- gj_78 6y agoI have nothing against the library itself, rather the fact that it is made by the hardware provider. Good or not, It looks like a marketing goodie given away by the manufacturer. History shows that hardware providers are not good at maintaining software at a high-quality level. Think of Sun/Sparc/Solaris or IBM/Power/Aix ... both excellent when it comes to hardware and loosers on the software side even after decades of development. It is simply not their "favorite stuff". Note that, linux, developed independently of Sun/IBM, is doing a good job. There is probably a lot of nice improvements to do at the hardware level for Nvidia GPUs, not to let their engineers work on this kind of disposable software. Please, Nvidia, Let someone else make that software. As a customer, I only need the next release of that Good Old hardware GPU !!!
- blelbach 6y ago> It’s a gift. I wouldn't say it's a gift, though; it's part of what you pay for when you buy one of our products. Sure, it's not listed as a spec on the box, but users expect that we're going to provide them with a good software stack and support it.