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Will WebCL in crosswalk 17 + upgrade the app performance?

Shaul_H_
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Hello, I read that in crosswalk 17 and above there is going to be a webcl option.  does this mean that applications will work better and much smoother?  it says that webcl gives the app the option to use the internal gpu... but i thought it is already an option in crosswalk, so i was wandering what is the difference and how can we use this to make our apps faster in future crosswalk versions?

Thanks for your time,

Shaul.

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PaulF_IntelCorp
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WebCL is an API that you can use from JavaScript to implement commands like those you would use in an OpenCL app. It is not a magic elixir that will make regular JS code faster. You have to explicitly write your app to use WebCL. It's a very specialized feature that tends to benefit multi-threaded parallel apps.

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