Just realised that in my software GPU wavefront pathtracing I could implement efficient virtual memory by storing any 'page miss' paths and then sort by page, load/unload pages and process the relevant paths.
Does anyone know if this has been done before?
#GPU #PathTracing #Avoyd #RayTracing
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2025-03-16 13:03:37
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