Dealing With Memory Management On Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dealing With Memory Management On Vulkan

Recently a NVIDIA engineer blogged about shader resource binding with Vulkan. The latest NVIDIA blog post about this next-gen graphics API is on memory management...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-NV-Memory-Management

[rabcor]

Urgh, memory management is the thing I feel most intimidated by in programming. Not graphical code, not threading, not 64-bit, but memory management!

[smitty3268]

Urgh, memory management is the thing I feel most intimidated by in programming. Not graphical code, not threading, not 64-bit, but memory management!

Concurrency is much more difficult to deal with, it's just that memory management has to be dealt with everywhere.

[Ancurio]

Urgh, memory management is the thing I feel most intimidated by in programming. Not graphical code, not threading, not 64-bit, but memory management!

I really like that I can actively allocate and manage my stuff under Vulkan though. Much better than the close-to-black box that OpenGL buffer management was, where you have to rely on hacks like orphaning to explicitly break dependencies.