nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Hard to say. Can you really decompress jpeg on the GPU?

> I thought it'd be a standard operation in GPUs by now.  It's the simplest and
> most common operation with images.

  Why would you even want to decompress a JPEG image with the GPU? After
all, the processors in the GPU are slower than the main CPU anyways.
(The reason why they are faster at drawing is extreme parallelism and
having hardware that is dedicated to drawing stuff.)

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