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Re-discovering 3D Graphics the Way Early Games Did (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] partner_boat_slug@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder: Server CPUs can have like 10+ cores, if compilers can optimize rasterization and transformations to become really fast .... but yeah requiring an average user to have this system is pretty expensive lol.

LLVMpipe to my understanding is GPU emulation on CPU on Linux.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I actually just stumbled across this video of a modern software renderer that can leverage modern multicore CPU's, and it's pretty impressive.