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by lkcl 1947 days ago
Jeff's evaluation of GPLGPU is fascinating: https://jbush001.github.io/2016/07/24/gplgpu-walkthrough.htm...

you are absolutely correct in that everything has moved on from "Fixed Function" of SGI, and how GPLGPU works (worked) - btw it's NOT GPL-licensed: Frank sadly made his own license, "GPL words but with non-commercial tacked onto the end" which ... er... isn't GPL... sigh - but everything commercially has now moved on to Shader Engines.

that basically means Vulkan.

however you may be fascinated to know, from Jeff's evaluation, that there are still startling similarities in basic functionality in not-GPL GPLGPU and in modern designs targetted at Shader Engines.