On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:06:36 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:

> Jared Putnam wrote:
>> The weaknesses of GPUs are:
>> 
>> There is no support for integers or fixed point.
> 
> Actually, this isn't a weakness.  IIUC, GPUs use unsigned integers only
> for control functions.  Is there really a need for signed integers? And,
> AFAIK, fixed point only exists in software.

DirectX 10 adds a requirement for integer support in the shaders.

Jon Smirl
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