IMO I think that it is really possible, but even if not the paper is quite interresting
http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf
Your right guts-wise. (‘the end of the GPU’-bitis kinda the same as the ‘end of the cpu’ papers that where floating around a while ago. These slides seem to easily beat all those papers even considering that it’s a incomplete story being slides and all.
[quote]- Each object contains a lock
- “Just lock an object before using it”
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Each object contains a lock - this sounds soo java :
“Just lock an object before using it” - depending on how well you can make biased locking work this might actually pan it
[quote]Hardware will become 20X faster, but:
- Game budgets will increase less than 2X.
Therefore… - Developers must be willing to sacrifice performance
in order to gain productivity. - High-level programming beats
low-level programming. - Easier hardware beats faster hardware!
- We need great tools: compilers, engines, middleware
libraries…
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Does anyone have a video of the presentation?
The stuff about raycasting isn’t that new, I found several articles and presentations a few years ago that said the future of graphics is raycasting. But it’s a very interesting presentation. I’d also love to see a video of it.