What is renderscript?

What is renderscript?

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here is renderscript overview from android

Renderscript offers a high performance computation API at the native level that you write in C (C99 standard). Renderscript gives your apps the ability to run operations with automatic parallelization across all available processor cores.

It also supports different types of processors such as the CPU, GPU or DSP. Renderscript is useful for apps that do image processing, mathematical modeling, or any operations that require lots of mathematical computation.

In addition, you have access to all of these features without having to write code to support different architectures or a different amount of processing cores. You also do not need to recompile your application for different processor types, because Renderscript code is compiled on the device at runtime.

Renderscript is platform independent

much like stubs in EJBs 


Fast
Portable
Ease of use (No JNI)


another api to learn
debugging due to client/server architecture


#pragma version(1)
#pragma rs java_package_name(com.example.android.rs.hellocompute)

//multipliers to convert a RGB colors to black and white
const static float3 gMonoMult = {0.299f, 0.587f, 0.114f};

void root(const uchar4 *v_in, uchar4 *v_out) {
  //unpack a color to a float4
  float4 f4 = rsUnpackColor8888(*v_in);
  //take the dot product of the color and the multiplier
  float3 mono = dot(f4.rgb, gMonoMult);
  //repack the float to a color
  *v_out = rsPackColorTo8888(mono);
}


private void createScript() {
      mRS = RenderScript.create(this);
      mInAllocation = Allocation.createFromBitmap(mRS, mBitmapIn,
          Allocation.MipmapControl.MIPMAP_NONE,
          Allocation.USAGE_SCRIPT);
      mOutAllocation = Allocation.createTyped(mRS, mInAllocation.getType());
      mScript = new ScriptC_mono(mRS, getResources(), R.raw.mono);
      mScript.forEach_root(mInAllocation, mOutAllocation);
      mOutAllocation.copyTo(mBitmapOut);
  }

The class ScriptC_mono is a generated class that has the function forEach_root

  1. Memory allocation request features
  2. A large collection of math functions with both scalar and vector typed overloaded versions of many common routines. Operations such as adding, multiplying, dot product, and cross product are available as well as atomic arithmetic and comparison functions.
  3. Conversion routines for primitive data types and vectors, matrix routines, and date and time routines
  4. Data types and structures to support the Renderscript system such as Vector types for defining two-, three-, or four-vectors.
  5. Logging functions

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