Anon (no@email.com) on 2/11/12 wrote:
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>In which case you need to look at the history of DirectX a little more closely,
>at nearly every generation there has been strong evidence of MS favouring one particular
>'camp' (although I hate the term myself..) - MS have well and truely shown that
>they are happy to use DX as a tool to push things the way they want.

Please share details. I haven't seen documentation of this before.

>Personally I think it doesnt matter, I notice you carefully avoid the content I
>wrote about dual codepaths, and the fact that CUDA easily outperforms OpenCL due
>to basic limitations of OpenCL.. as long as that stays true, both will continue
>to be used/supported,

I don't think so. In some apps maybe, but not generally. Maintaining code paths is a hassle. We do not want to do it. Look at what is happening to Fortran. The forces towards standardization are very strong.

>There is an interesting parallel in Cg/GLSL/HLSL.
>It may surprise you to know that Cg is still heavily used, even though it started
>life as an NVidia solution. It is still THE standard for DCC, and HLSL ended up mirroring it quite closely.
>GLSL, the 'open' standard, even in OpenGL, has much less traction.

This is also news to me. Can you provide some pointers to Cg and it's history?