On Apr 9, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Poulain <benja...@webkit.org> wrote:
> I am very curious about the source of interest in OpenCL on browser. While > OpenCL is a great technology, I have the feeling it is not ready for the web. > What kind of applications do you foresee being powered by OpenCL on the Web? > > I can imagine some use of CPU based kernels for the web (for image > manipulation for example). But I have a hard time seeing how adding full > support of OpenCL would not be shooting ourself in the foot at this point. > That may change in the future when GPU hardware converges… There has also been interest in the WebAudio WG about using OpenCL/WebCL for custom audio processing. There are significant performance issues involved with doing custom audio processing in JavaScript, even in a Worker thread, but WebCL may offer performance and memory characteristics which would couple well with the requirements of realtime audio threads. -Jer
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