Zink Seeing macOS Support For OpenGL Over Vulkan Then MoltenVK On Top Of Metal

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Zink Seeing macOS Support For OpenGL Over Vulkan Then MoltenVK On Top Of Metal

The Zink Gallium3D driver that implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan has been on quite a roll recently... Beyond reaching OpenGL 4.6 support in yet-to-be-merged patches and passing ~97% of the Piglit OpenGL tests and increasingly good performance compared to Intel's OpenGL driver, the latest interesting milestone is seeing initial work on bringing Zink to macOS...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zink-macOS-OpenGL-Vulkan

[skeevy420]

macOS: More Layers Than A Geological Survey

[QwertyChouskie]

Finally! Was waiting for this

SuperTuxKart decent performance on macOS?

[tildearrow]

Molten goes out of business after developers replace MoltenGL with Zink

[shmerl]

Apple are lock-in freaks. Good thing someone is making translation work to break their lock-in.

[torsionbar28]

I'd like to see someone write a GLide abstraction layer on top of Zink.

[karolherbst]

ahh the first non broken accelerated OpenGL implementation for macos

[ssokolow]

I'd like to see someone write a GLide abstraction layer on top of Zink.

• http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/openglide/
• http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/

[brad0]

macOS: More Layers Than A Geological Survey

Linux takes the cake here. It's a joke.

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