In the learningwebgl tutorial1 I've found an interesting line in the fragment shader.
precision mediump float;
I've found an article about it here, but I still can't understand what does it mean?
And if I remove this line, nothing changes. Everything is the same. So what does precision mediump float
mean?
This determines how much precision the GPU uses when calculating floats. highp
is high precision, and of course more intensive than mediump
(medium precision) and lowp
(low precision).
Some systems do not support highp
at all, which will cause code not to work at all on those systems.
On systems that DO support highp
, you will see a performance hit, and should use mediump
and lowp
wherever possible. A good rule of thumb that I saw was:
- highp
for vertex positions,
- mediump
for texture coordinates,
- lowp
for colors.
Hope that helps!
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