[HN Gopher] Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
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       Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-11-10 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.pimaker.at)
        
       | snvzz wrote:
       | RISC-V is inevitable.
        
       | MobiusHorizons wrote:
       | Pretty amazing work!
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       | Work like this highlights how different the compute models are
       | between gpu and cpu. Honestly very impressed it runs as fast as
       | it does (250khz) given those differences.
        
       | accrual wrote:
       | As someone who had a brief alternate life in VRC and made worlds
       | - just /wow/. I had just enough grasp on Unity to make some basic
       | things, but stuffing Linux into a pixel shader is 1 if not 2
       | orders of magnitude more impressive.
       | 
       | p.s. Udon Bird Sanctuary! I've been there!
        
       | majorchord wrote:
       | Article should probably have "(2021)" in the title.
        
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