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=== SwiftShader ===
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SwiftShader is a high-performance CPU-based implementation of the Vulkan graphics API. Its goal is to provide hardware independence for advanced 3D graphics.<ref>{{Citation |title=SwiftShader |date=2023-01-11 |url=https://github.com/google/swiftshader |publisher=Google |access-date=2023-01-12}}</ref> It contains shaders and other Direct3D 8/9 class capabilities. SwiftShader was sold to Google in 2015 for US$1.25 million. It is currently used in Google Chrome as well as in Apple's Safari Web Browser to render 3D content.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/transgaming-announces-assignment-swiftshader-ip-202600923.html|title=TransGaming Announces Assignment of SwiftShader IP|date=May 4, 2016}}</ref> SwiftShader is built around two major optimizations that affect its architecture: dynamic code generation, and parallel processing. Generating code at run-time allows to eliminate code branches and optimizes register usage, specializing the processing routines for exactly the operations required by each draw call. Parallel processing means both utilizing the CPU's multiple cores and processing multiple elements accoss the width of the SIMD vector units. <ref>{{Cite web |title=SwiftShader Documentation |url=https://swiftshader.googlesource.com/SwiftShader/+/HEAD/docs/Index.md#:~:text=SwiftShader%20provides%20shared%20libraries%20(DLLs,window,%20or%20an%20offscreen%20buffer. |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=swiftshader.googlesource.com}}</ref>