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Comment by bapak

7 months ago

Unless they create a codec that GPUs are naturally good at, we will inevitably always be a couple of hardware cycles behind.

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astrange  7 months ago

You can't do this because GPUs are parallel and decompression cannot be parallel. If there's any parallelism it means it's not compressed as much as it could be.

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