Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 01:41:58 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 9
Message-ID: <ve9vp5$3cbkr$6@dont-email.me>
References: <2024Oct3.085754@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
	<memo.20241003234930.19028I@jgd.cix.co.uk>
	<2024Oct4.170717@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vdsmgb$ukl1$3@dont-email.me>
	<2024Oct6.091859@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vdv79m$1dc01$10@dont-email.me>
	<20241007130553.00006dc7@yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:41:58 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0b5f06eee4a1d884280520d20084135c";
	logging-data="3550875"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19BIjeru2/5+1YBP7no+lvL"
User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; )
Cancel-Lock: sha1:fC3BgeCxexYPni/umwsSa7ytT+s=
Bytes: 1576

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 13:05:53 +0300, Michael S wrote:

> In all cases the vendor of GPU changed ...

That, too, added to the problem, in that the software folks had to rewrite 
all the performance-intensive bits yet again for the new machine.

OpenCL never took off because the GPGPU market simply isn’t competitive 
enough. NVidia is dominant, AMD plays second fiddle, and that’s it.