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swiftcoderyesterday at 4:05 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't think it would, but I don't think it's a given that their homegrown renderer is wildly more performant either - people tend to overestimate the performance of naive renderers


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ChadNauseamyesterday at 7:51 PM

wgpu isn't a renderer though, it's an abstraction layer. It's honestly hard for me to imagine it ever being faster than writing directx or metal directly. It has many advantages, like that it runs in browsers and is memory safe (and in the case of dawn, has great error messages). But it's hard for it to ever be as fast as the native APIs it calls for you.

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