On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 22:41:48 -0700, Dahlia Trimble wrote: > But seriously, perhaps LL should consider writing a new viewer with a > modern, API-agnostic rendering layer. OpenGL is stagnant on just about > every platform now.
OpenGL is not stagnant (v4.6 dates only from July 2017): it is simply mature. However, next generation OpenGL is not v5.0 but rather Vulkan (the latter allowing to take a much larger benefit from multi-core CPUs, at the cost of a lower level API and thus more work and complexity for the 3D application programmers). As for SL viewers, I'd love to see a Vulkan renderer developed, but I doubt it will happen any time soon... Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
