POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Suggestion: OpenCL : Re: clipka I'll answer you here... Server Time
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  Re: clipka I'll answer you here...  
From: Saul Luizaga
Date: 15 Aug 2009 14:09:04
Message: <4a86f9c0@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> Saul Luizaga wrote:
>> You just don't like to be corrected
> 
> This sounds more like you.

right...

> 
> Believe it or not, this subject is an official Dead Horse.  Please stop 
> beating it, you'll only get a bloody mess.
> 
>> I made a search on p.o-t on the subject
> 
> First, p.o-t is the wrong forum.
> Second, posts here expire.
> 
>> was: "are you ABSOLUTELY SURE it won't work...?"
> 
> No, you didn't even ask a question.

news://news.povray.org:119/4a850da7@news.povray.org, check the last 
paragraph, proves you wrong. Did you liked to be corrected?

> 
> This is something which, by your own words, you have just heard about. 
> You then quoted a whole bunch of marketing blurbs about it.
> 
> Trust me.  We have not just heard about it, but have been looking at the 
> idea for more than *10 years* now.  I haven't specifically looked at 
> OpenCL, but I have CUDA, and the underlying hardware hasn't changed 
> enough yet to overcome the inherent limitations in the system.
> 
>> To the subject: I don't know much about GPUs, POV-Ray internals, 
>> programming, nor OpenCL,
> 
> Then why is it so hard for you to accept that this isn't a good idea at 
> this time?
> 
> If you really want to help make POV-Ray better, the source code is 
> available.  Please, dig in!  Start reading the p.p group, and look at 
> some of the outstanding bugs!  That would surely be appreciated more 
> than your parroting some random marketing blurbs.
> 
> ....Chambers

So open minded... thanks, I out of here for good.


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