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Zardus

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GPU Programming
« on: February 15, 2008, 05:40:00 pm »
(Please note, this post is mostly speculation due to lack of familiarity with the technologies under discussion)

There seem to be a few things in DF that could be handled quite well by a GPU. Specifically, I was thinking something like temperature calculations could be done by a GPU faster than by a CPU. nVidia and ATI both offer interfaces to use the GPU for general computation, and since DF doesn't exactly tax the graphics card, it could be a good way to get some extra processing power.

Of course, this would probably introduce even more complexity than multithreading might not be worth it in the end.

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Re: GPU Programming
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2008, 05:42:00 pm »
fluid and cave-in code could be candidates as well
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Re: GPU Programming
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2008, 05:48:00 pm »
This was suggested a month ago and general consensus is that it's not worth it- especially since Toady hasn't even implemented multithreading and this seems far more complex than it.
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