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From: Caffeine Junky <nospam@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Nvidia , Cg, and Ada?
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:00:58 -0400, David Marceau wrote:
> If push came to shove I gather someone would generate small .cg files
> with one instruction in them and then examine the contents of the object
> file or look at the assembler in the gdb :)  It reminds me what I think
> the ming sdk guys are doing to reverse-engineer .swf files in order to
> create .swf flash player files without using a GUI tool :)
> 
> I understand recently someone mentioned F22 uses NVIDIA GPUs along with
> being written in ada.  This means the binding you want probably has
> already been written however not for the general public.  If you work
> for defense you might have a chance to ask for it.  You can't have what
> you don't ask for :)
> 
> Cheers,
> David Marceau

You know what, it is a distinct possibility that Nvidia is releasing the
compiler in the hopes that someone would be able to step around certain
third party patent restrictions on thier behalf. Naturally if they could
get thier drivers Open Sourced, then theres virtually no limit to the
number of platforms their cards will run on.

Asking the military doesnt seem like such a bad idea.  Any idea who I'd
contact?


Thanks.

Chris
St4pL3