WebGPU and WSL in Safari
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WebGPU and WSL in Safari
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Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#2Unrelated: the video doesn’t fit on the screen in Mobile Safari.
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#3The Web Shading Language is going to have to pick a new acronym; I did a double take when I saw that Windows Subsystem for Linux was coming to Safari
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#4is tensorflow going to use this?
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#5The Web Shading Language is going to have to pick a new acronym; I did a double take when I saw that Windows Subsystem for Linux was coming to Safari
It really should be WebSL like everything else in its space (WebGL, WebAssembly, etc.)
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#6The Web Shading Language is going to have to pick a new acronym; I did a double take when I saw that Windows Subsystem for Linux was coming to Safari
It really should be WebSL like everything else in its space (WebGL, WebAssembly, etc.)
It's a bit weird that they talk bout WebGPU and WebGL and then name it WSL instead of WebSL.
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#7I'm unsure how they're getting better performance. Webgl is using opengl in a sort of sandboxed manner, does this webgpu approach bypass some checks or find different performant ways to do them? Afaik the biggest problem with gpu access from browsers is that the you instructions are not at all hardware secure. So everything has to be managed.
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#8Not really interesting until Chrome adopts it
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#9I'm unsure how they're getting better performance. Webgl is using opengl in a sort of sandboxed manner, does this webgpu approach bypass some checks or find different performant ways to do them? Afaik the biggest problem with gpu access from browsers is that the you instructions are not at all hardware secure. So everything has to be managed.
I just assumed that Apple exposed some API functionality in Webkit that allowed more efficient low-level usage of the GPU hardware. This leads me to believe that adoption of the WebGPU technology will probably fail to break out of the Apple ecosystem.
Re: WebGPU and WSL in Safari
#10I'm unsure how they're getting better performance. Webgl is using opengl in a sort of sandboxed manner, does this webgpu approach bypass some checks or find different performant ways to do them? Afaik the biggest problem with gpu access from browsers is that the you instructions are not at all hardware secure. So everything has to be managed.
One big way to improve on performance over WebGL is that WebGL exposes a slow layer on top of an already slow imperative API (OpenGL), while new-style APIs (Vulkan, DX12, Metal) are built around command buffers and state objects that you can assemble and then dispatch to the GPU in big chunks.
Think of it like the equivalent between calling memcpy(a++, b++, 1) in a loop and calling memcpy(a, b, n) instead.