Chapter 2. Memory and Resources
What You’ll Learn in This Chapter
• How Vulkan manages host and device memory
• How to manage memory effectively in your application
• How Vulkan uses images and buffers to consume and produce data
Memory is fundamental to the operation of virtually all computing systems, including Vulkan. In Vulkan, there are two fundamental types of memory: host memory and device memory. All resources upon which Vulkan operates must be backed by device memory, and it is the application’s responsibility to manage this memory. Further, memory is used to store data structures on the host. Vulkan provides the opportunity for your application to manage this memory too. In this chapter, you’ll learn about the mechanisms through which ...
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