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by kvark 7y ago
This is not correct. The WGSL is renamed from Tint, which is a Google's proposal for a shading language, in agreement with all parties.
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by kvark 7y ago
That's true, but also a reflection of the whole WebGPU standardization process. It tries to be low-level enough to be performant yet still human writable. I agree it's tricky, but just because it's hard to formulate the concr
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by kvark 7y ago
Can totally relate to this. A casual office-pong player, one time walked into a Chinese pong club to get my technique corrected... Ended up totally re-learning how to play in a course of 2 years, similarly humiliated by young students of th
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by kvark 7y ago
Good to know! I'll look for an OS written in Rust elsewhere then. Fuchsia is interesting, but could be much more so.
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by kvark 7y ago
GitHub is slowly eating the surrounding cities. Github pages replaced our hosted sites. Projects replaced Trello/Waffle and friends. Actions replaced Travis/CircleCI. Sponsors is about to hit Patreon, and now Discussions aims for
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by kvark 7y ago
Wouldn't it be fun if you were basically saying "AMD support on Linux is great, unless you are using GNOME or KDE"? :D
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by kvark 7y ago
Latest efforts were focused on optimizations, and we there are still a few things ([1]) we want to try out. Current status can be found at [2]. - [1] https://github.com/szeged/webrender/issues/212 - [2] h
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by kvark 7y ago
It's with Ryzen 3500U on Ubuntu 19.10, no fancy configuration.
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by kvark 7y ago
Heh, I was hoping for the same, but in reality I get sleep issues quite often, subpar battery life, and overall unpolished experience... on AMD with Ubuntu.
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by kvark 7y ago
Amazing work! I'm excited to try out the Plasma variant. So far have been using Budgie, and quite happy with it. The main annoyance is package repository. Not only it's humble, but the maintainers have really strong views on what
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by kvark 7y ago
Why even show ads? Perhaps, it would be easier to just have Alphabet spawning a company doing SEO that triggers the right strings of the Google page ranking algorithm, thus successfully putting stuff on top of search. Google still receives
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by kvark 7y ago
You must be reading this wrong. The quoted text says: 1. WebGPU name was taken from Apple 2. Apple initiated the working group in W3C (by refusing to work with Khronos). What this does NOT say is: - Apple's prototype was t
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by kvark 7y ago
Current motion is maybe we'll get a Queue::setBufferSubData and setTextureSubData, or not. And even if we get them, it's problematic to allow the copy to be direct if this part of the buffer isn't used (while some other part
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by kvark 7y ago
You can play with the native implementations on Linux for now, such as wgpu and Dawn, with an ability to build for the web in the future.
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by kvark 7y ago
WebGPU was prototyped by all parties, not just Apple. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU
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by kvark 7y ago
Without push constants or persistently mapped uniform buffers, it's a long stretch to call our way of setting uniforms "efficient"...
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by kvark 7y ago
It means, I'll be happy to look at the code, contribute, even build without going through the hoops on every platform... It means the thing is lightweight and fast. And also - unlikely to crash or eat my drive because of sloppy UB.
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by kvark 7y ago
Was reading and thinking "oh boy this looks so good, I wish it was written in Rust..." and then reached the "Installation Instructions" just to see "cargo install broot". HERE WE GO
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by kvark 7y ago
I recently implemented the painters algorithm in a modern-ish way: using atomic ops in a compute shader. That's one of the rendering techniques for the terrain in https://github.com/kvark/vange-rs
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by kvark 7y ago
They just want to make sure we aren't depending on Khronos too much. It's a reasonable thing to want for the group. As for Firefox, the WebGPU implementation uses the infrastructure we have for Vulkan Portability, and so consuming
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by kvark 7y ago
There is no resolution for this question yet, too early to celebrate anything.
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by kvark 7y ago
More capable (compute) and modern: command buffers, passes, pipeline states, bind groups, multi-threading.
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Implementing WebGPU in Gecko(kvark.github.io)
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by kvark 7y ago
Well said! At the same time, it's sad to live in the world were being honest and straightforward pays off so poorly.
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by kvark 7y ago
> the pursuit of this beauty is the path to being good at go There is art! It's just an emergent property of learning the game. Seeking art doesn't make you a better player - that's the trap one can easily fall in any spor
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by kvark 7y ago
They can make other browsers subtly slower, just open your imagination.
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by kvark 7y ago
Amazing work by my colleagues! I hope we'll not regress this with WebRender ;) Celebration aside, one particular note (that was known, but still) makes me sad: > It’s worth noting that the ability to assign an IOSurface to the CALay
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by kvark 7y ago
Exciting talk! And I'm happy to know that one of the leading shader devs from Rust community has successfully "embarked" :) Technology-wise, the compiler goes from MIR to SPIR-V. This is specific to Rust and different from th
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by kvark 7y ago
Arguing and downvoting is just how people and internet work. This has nothing to do with Mozilla culture. Rest assured the engineers of Mozilla are doing their best to make the product superior, independent of the principles difference.
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by kvark 7y ago
We are working on making it default on more platforms, see https://arewewebrenderyet.com/

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