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tlb on Feb 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Feasibility of low-level GPU access on the Web

I was referring to compositing the DOM objects onto the screen, which is GPU-accelerated in most cases.

The internal canvas compositing operations you mention are also GPU-accelerated in most cases.

kg on Feb 11, 2018 [–]

Last I checked, many browser vendors only GPU accelerate specific blend modes. If you do anything fancy your canvas ops silently drop to software.

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