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		moron4hire on June 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript Except on systems without good GPUs.

pjmlp on June 11, 2014 [–]

SIMD is CPU related not GPU.

moron4hire on June 11, 2014 | [–]

Yes, I know. The person I was replying to was questioning why someone would want SIMD when shaders on a GPU were available. Well, if you don't have a GPU, shaders aren't available (or at least emulated at a huge performance hit).

pjmlp on June 11, 2014 | | [–]

Ah, sorry I missed that.

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