gpu-io VS gpu.js

I’ve been making some changes to the JavaScript demos in a repo called GPU-IO, link here: https://github.com/amandaghassaei/gpu-io

This may be somewhat tangential to the convo, but someone shared this with me today.. some neat stuff here: https://apps.amandaghassaei.com/gpu-io/examples/

You might already be familiar, but a GPU.js backend can provide some speedups via good old WebGL -- no need for WebGPU just yet!

[0]: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/

Very cool project.

I learned WebGL three years ago but before I dove into the underlying concepts I used GPU.js [1] to quickly prototype my project. Eventually, the abstraction prevented necessary performance optimizations so I switched to vanilla GLSL and these vanilla GLSL "shaders" were initially ejected from GPU.js.

Writing JS code then looking at the generated WebGPU output is a great way to get familiar with WebGPU. Thanks for this.

[1] https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/

I used this library on my project but I think it's no longer maintained. I PRed a fix for buggy atan2 over a year ago and no movement [1]. I do highly recommend it if you're a web developer interested in harnessing parallel processing.

[1] https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/pull/683

Thanks for pointing this out. I've submitted a PR to resolve this: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js/issues/757

That being said, if you're not building from source (you're running an LTS version of node on a supported platform), you don't need to worry about python or many of the build deps.