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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Misc: Applications of small floating point formats.
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 04:12:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 3 Aug 2024 14:33:01 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> I think compute shaders can be used for some raytracing...

And compute shaders were the origin of the idea that became OpenCL/SYCL, 
getting rid of the graphics-drawing part and just keeping the SIMD-
oriented computing part.