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Proposed Vulkan Extension To Improve Memory Sharing With Apple's Metal
LunarG engineer Aitor Camacho Larrondo has proposed VK_EXT_external_memory_metal, a new extension for the Vulkan API to allow for more easily sharing memory objects from Vulkan with Apple's Metal.
There is already the VK_EXT_metal_objects extension to expose underlying Metal resources, but that currently requires some special handling and semantics that don't align with the more straight-forward VK_EXT_external_memory_metal approach. VK_EXT_external_memory_metal is similar in nature to VK_KHR_external_memory_win32 for easier memory sharing on Windows platforms such as with Direct3D and VK_ANDROID_external_memory_android_hardware_buffer for native Android hardware buffers. More details on this proposed Vulkan external memory Metal extension via GitHub.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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