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Unsurprisingly, it turns out that other people had already thought of applying the multi-pass technique on GPU, but the idea is not very widely known. The demo
by userbinator 8mo ago
Unsurprisingly, it turns out that other people had already thought of applying the multi-pass technique on GPU, but the idea is not very widely known.
The demoscene is particularly insular, but even within the field of computing in general it seems that there is not a lot of knowledge diffusion between all the different areas, leading to some reinventions (often with distinct terminology.)
- Tomte 8mo agoFor example, the requirements for a CPU instruction set, in order for it to be properly virtualizable, had been known in the mainframe computing world for many, many years, when Intel and AMD came up with their unvirtualizable (except for VMware‘s heroic tricks) 32 bit instruction sets. Those requirements and their different jargon from the mainframe world were re-discovered from the literature when virtualization in the PC world became a selling point. (Edouard Bugnion et. al. - Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization)