Fast Matrix Math in JS 3: WebGL/WebGPU

Last time we looked at WASM and the interesting SIMD capability. One question we could ask was instead of adding 2-4 values at a time what if there was some way we could add more? As it turns out most computers including phones and other device have dedicated hardware for this called a GPU. GPUs are typically associated with graphics, they were literally designed to perform hundreds to thousands of math operations in parallel in order to calculate pixel colors …

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