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And yet, look at x86. Still going strong after 40 years. There is absolutely no reason we could not have a standard instruction set for GPUs. OpenGL is just the
by miltondts 5y ago
And yet, look at x86. Still going strong after 40 years. There is absolutely no reason we could not have a standard instruction set for GPUs. OpenGL is just the wrong abstraction. Same for Vulkan.
- glitchc 5y agoThe x86 ISA led to stagnation in the CPU space. Notice how an entirely new architecture (ARM) required a new ISA to fully leverage its capabilities. RISC-V is another example. A good analogy for this is the language and mind relationship. The mind shapes the language just as much as the language shapes the mind.
- fulafel 5y agoIt's not really even x86, it's the defacto C processor & machine model, and sw ecosystem. ARM works with the same sw stack as x86 because of this.