[webkit-dev] WebKit + OpenCL

[Zoltan Herczeg]

Hi,

I was thinking for some time whether I should reply, as there was no
question in the mail, only an opinion. I still cannot say anything else
that I respect this opinion. I am sure the intent is to make WebKit
better, the same thing most of us want here. Dirk explained the technical
part (btw we also have optimizations for Skia). This is the purpose of the
/platform directory.

Regards,
Zoltan

> On Nov 23, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Andreas Kling <akling at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Do we really think it's a good idea to add yet another implementation of
>> filters?
>>
>> We already have generic, NEON-optimized and WTF::ParallelJobs (which
>> includes generic, OpenMP and libdispatch backends) implementations of
>> this code, and now we're adding OpenCL too.
>>
>> On the WebKit Project Goals page
>> <http://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html>, it states that:
>>
>> "WebKit is an engineering project not a science project. For new
>> features to be adopted into WebKit, we strongly prefer for the
>> technology or at least the use case for it to be proven."
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't see much use of these features on
>> the web. I understand that there's a bit of a chicken/egg problem where
>> a feature won't be interesting to content creators until it performs
>> well enough, but it seems like we could at least decide on a single path
>> forward instead of repeatedly forking the code.
>
> I designed the current SVG Filters implementation in a way that hopefully
> make it possible to implement HW accelerated filters on top of it. Skia
> and NEON already go this path. I am not defending the OpenCL
> implementation for SVG Filters per se, but different platform dependent
> solutions were expected and wanted. Software filters were designed to be a
> fallback if an implementation does not provide HW acceleration (yet). I
> hope that we see a Core Image version of filters in the near future as
> well. The code for that is in the history of the repository already.
>
> Greetings,
> Dirk
>
>>
>> -Kling
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Zoltan Herczeg <zherczeg at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> we start upstreaming some OpenCL optimizations into WebKit.
>>>
>>> This is the master bug:
>>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70099
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Zoltan
>>>
>>>
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