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		tomjakubowski on Nov 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: uThreads – Concurrent User Threads in C a... It's not nonsense if, to render each pixel, you issue an HTTP request containing the scene/eye data and requested pixel coordinate, and wait for a response to come back from your magic render farm that lives in "the cloud". Now your "ray tracer" is totally I/O bound! :-)

edvinbesic on Nov 8, 2016 [–]

Not sure if /s, but, to rasterize a 1920x1080 image you would make 2073600 HTTP requests? Sound reasonable.

Someone on Nov 8, 2016 | [–]

Double that if you want to PUT the pixels on a screen.

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