From the apple SL site:
Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open Computing Language), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, theyโre capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing."
I couldn't help but think about all the possibilities that extra CPU power could bring to an application like MIR. I know that there can be no official comment on the ramifications of this by any Apple developer. But surely this type of technology would help to reduce the need to have a dedicated machine running MIR.. Considering a top of the line graphics card like this runs for about $650 CAD (less then a i7 quad core processor)
Not having extensive knowledge of GPU's vs CPU's I'm unsure of how huge that impact would be, sure can't hurt though! ๐
So what do you guys thing about OpenCL?