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"a low level interface to the GPU command buffer"

This sounds cool. Is this a standard feature in Chrome?



It's available for extensions I think (there's also the higher-level WebGL which you must be aware of), and requires whitelisted graphic drivers. As you can see, graphic acceleration offers a huge attack surface (memory-unsafety in C++ code, plus logic bugs at highly privileged levels like graphic drivers, firmware, and the hardware itself). Some of these layers realistically won't be protected until they have proper IOMMU support.




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