It would be welcome. Thats one of many things that impressed me about Blender. Both the display AND the output renderer are GPU accelerated.
I did phrase the question to include both processes, but maybe that wasnt clear to the person I asked. I guess its a moot point for now. But I would hope they would develop both based on my Blender experience. It is blazingly fast with my GTX 570.
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