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It's the same thing as Safari, IE, and Chrome using the GPU to composite pages: Silverlight is hardware accelerated, but does not expose the hardware accelerati

It's the same thing as Safari, IE, and Chrome using the GPU to composite pages: Silverlight is hardware accelerated, but does not expose the hardware acceleration primitives. GL or Direct3D expose more-or-less direct hardware access, which is very different.

SigmundA 15y ago
It does in Silverlight 5 through the XNA API.
- snprbob86 15y ago
  Ah, awesome! (I worked on XNA while at Microsoft about a year ago) I knew that this was happening, but didn't know they released it yet. It's my understanding that they worked crazy hard to make this secure.