Speaker
Abstract
Since OpenGL has been deprecated, writing portable native apps that leverage the massively parallel computing capabilities of GPUs has become tedious because no single graphics API can fit all targets. On the course of implementing WebGPU, the next API that will be available to web developers to access GPUs, major browsers face this lack of a common API and duplicate the development effort for multiple hosts (Vulkan, DirectX, Metal). In this presentation, we present:
- How we can benefit from this common effort carried out by browser developers to do native graphics programming with a single API.
- How despite the need for WebGPU to remain within its sandboxed process in the browser, it brings much more power than WebGL did and thus makes it possible to share high-performance code bases across native and web development.
Topics
performance
development
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon London 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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