9-11 October 2024
Concordia University Conference Centre
Canada/Eastern timezone

Vulkan for Wayland Compositors: the new best choice?

10 Oct 2024, 17:15
5m
Concordia University Conference Centre

Concordia University Conference Centre

1450 Guy St., Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 0A1
Lightning Talk Lightning Talks

Speaker

Austin Shafer (NVIDIA)

Description

This talk puts forward the following assertion: OpenGL should no longer be considered the "default" API used for compositor development, and Vulkan's design is a better match for what the modern compositor needs. This talk will cover multi-GPU challenges I've encountered during recent compositor work, explain why Vulkan's device-aware API is a good match, demonstrate some unique asynchronous copy logic made possible by Vulkan, and go over why EGL can't be extended with similar features. Vulkan isn't a silver bullet, but OpenGL isn't the obvious choice it once was. The goal is to promote discussion about and further development of Vulkan-based compositors and infrastructure.

Code of Conduct Yes
In-person or virtual presentation In-person
GSoC, EVoC or Outreachy No

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