> An early Facebook photos engineer mentioned he had seen remarkable performance and quality coming out of the Apple Core Graphics stack .
What does the Apple stack have, which can't be done on a Linux box with a high-end GPU like a K20 or a Tesla?
What does the Apple stack have, which can't be done on a Linux box with a high-end GPU like a K20 or a Tesla?
It seems it was cheaper for Imgix to use Core Graphics rather than implement it themselves on Linux.
Technically Apple has had their Metal API available for a while now but I kind of doubt they're using that for image processing.
The apple hardware is either Nvidia or ATI gpus, but the software apis are what are really nice about dealing with some of these things on OS X. I think the Author of the post is confounding new hardware from Nvidia / ATI with new hardware from Apple.
Think of what YouTube is doing for videos in the time you read this sentence if you want to put their silly claims in perspective.
Anybody remember when Steve Jobs said the 400Mhz PowerPC G4 Altivec was a supercomputer? But the only code that showed up was a Reverb that took a weekend to run and a couple FFT libraries that had accuracy problems? Good times.
Very unlikely.