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willvarfar on June 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specificatio...

JWZ is so right.

The whole "FFP is slow" argument is completely wrong.

Most graphics drivers are broken and inefficient. Its just a lack of decent dedicated programming effort coupled with over-management at NVidia etc.

My own brush with Khronos group back when this was being done still makes me shudder.

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/14011115100/openg...

TazeTSchnitzel on June 20, 2012 [–]

Yeah, graphics drivers are broken and inefficient, and one reason is they have to implement ALL of the LEGACY, DEPRECATED SPEC in SOFTWARE, because some people's code could break.

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