On Tue, 30 May, 2006 at 07:57AM +0200, Esben Stien spake thus: > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > What does everyone think? > > It's a hobbyist solution, in my opinion. It's not a scalable general > solution; it's special purpose computing. But don't we count as hobbyists? Doing special things? > Push for more FP power in CPUs';). > > There's much power in the GPU, though; which sucks. My "real" job involves graphics (surface reconstruction and such) and I've wondered, in the past, if I could push a lot more vertex processing onto the card. But I can't, because I use a range of machines and it's useless if I can run something nice and smooth at home and not at work, or the other way around. But it's tempting. James
