Mipmap selection in too much detail

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pema99 · 1d ago

Author here - I imagine this is a bit too niche to get much traction on HN. There's a bit of discussion on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/pema99.bsky.social/post/3lotdtgowf2...

aeonik · 1d ago

    "You couldn’t implement these functions yourself - they are magic intrinsics which are implemented in hardware"

But why?

pema99 · 13h ago

There simply isn't another way to access registers from one 'thread' on another thread without using an intrinsic. You need that to calculate finite differences. For a long time, the only option was ddx()/ddy(). Now we also wave intrinsics, which you couldn't implement yourself either.

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Mipmap selection in too much detail

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