Pushing the problem out to CSS would be nice, but I'm working with thousands of calculations that are much easier to do server-side on strings of RGB triplets rather than client-side on full images. I ended up writing my own PNG outputer because I can do a huge amount of pre-processing because I'm controlling everything and can take advantage of specific optimizations. The browser can't do it because it has to deal with the general case. (Plus, IE's handling of PNG transparency isn't always correct.)

I am looking forward to a time when GPUs will be more common. It would be interesting to see if CPUs could be replaced by GPUs for certain kinds of programming needs. I wonder if a gcc target could be a GPU ...

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^7: Challenge: CPU-optimized byte-wise or-equals (for a meter of beer) by dragonchild
in thread Challenge: CPU-optimized byte-wise or-equals (for a meter of beer) by dragonchild

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