One-Line Patch To Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Can Help Modern Games By A Few Percent

[phoronix]

Phoronix: One-Line Patch To Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Can Help Modern Games By A Few Percent

A patch merged into Mesa 22.0 on Tuesday for Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is helping bump up the perforrmance in modern games...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...an-Few-Percent

[Lbibass]

Well that’s fun. Good to know that simple stuff like that can still provide a nice little increase in performance.

[Vorpal]

Michael So... What is a "binding table pool" exactly? I assume it is a memory pool of "binding tables". But what is a "binding table"? What does it bind? Or perhaps I should ask what it tables?

The article isn't really clear on this.

[linuxgeex]

Phoronix: One-Line Patch To Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Can Help Modern Games By A Few Percent

A patch merged into Mesa 22.0 on Tuesday for Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is helping bump up the perforrmance in modern games...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...an-Few-Percent

Was the patch by a Scottish programmer? lol

[Beherit]

Was the patch by a Scottish programmer? lol

I know it’ll probably ruin the joke, yet I’d like to ask if you could please explain it?

[linuxgeex]

I know it’ll probably ruin the joke, yet I’d like to ask if you could please explain it?

Michael used "perforrmance" to describe the one-line patch. Although Scots are native English speakers, a peculiarity of their dialect is that they tend to roll their r's. So yeah it's a subtle joke.