Regarding my tweet yesterday about wanting GPU ISAs instead of APIs, Jeff Roberts emailed me with the following comment:
@scottmichaud @Jonathan_Blow Better because no drivers. It removes one (large) level of bugs and perf problems from the stack.
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@scottmichaud@Jonathan_Blow It also eliminated one entire cartesian product from the shipping matrix, which is "graphics API". -
@cmuratori@Jonathan_Blow Well, it shifts burden from conforming to a graphics API to cobbling the pieces you need of it, yourself. - Show replies
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