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0 pointsjohndough7y ago0 comments

Are there any news on WebGL compute shaders?

I remember OpenCL for Firefox being discussed and discarded in favor of compute shaders about 7 years ago, and then when WebGL 2.0 was finally released 5 years later, compute shaders were not part of it.

Additionaly, SIMD.js has been developed and then killed again and support for SIMD in WebAssembly has been delayed, so I don't believe that we'll be able to implement efficient numerical methods in the browser any time soon.

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pjmlp7y ago

Here is the proposal.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EwhDJO_lBH1mGMMwheQUXGhh...

fulafel7y ago

Note that you can do GPGPU with the current WebGL, compute shaders don't have that many additional capabilities unless you are looking do computation without interference from from onscreen WebGL graphics.

For a future GPGPU web api, the vendors seem to have settled behind https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/

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