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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library.
Memory allocation and resource (buffer and image) creation in Vulkan is difficult (comparing to older graphics API-s, like D3D11 or OpenGL) for several reasons:
- It requires a lot of boilerplate code, just like everything else in Vulkan, because it is a low-level and high-performance API.
- There is additional level of indirection: `VkDeviceMemory` is allocated separately from creating `VkBuffer`/`VkImage` and they must be bound together. The binding cannot be changed later - resource must be recreated.
- There is additional level of indirection: `VkDeviceMemory` is allocated separately from creating `VkBuffer`/`VkImage` and they must be bound together.
- Driver must be queried for supported memory heaps and memory types. Different IHVs provide different types of it.
- It is recommended practice to allocate bigger chunks of memory and assign parts of them to particular resources.
@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Additional features:
- Configuration: Fill optional members of CreateInfo structure to provide custom CPU memory allocator, pointers to Vulkan functions and other parameters.
- Customization: Predefine appropriate macros to provide your own implementation of all external facilities used by the library, from assert, mutex, and atomic, to vector and linked list.
- Support for memory mapping, reference-counted internally. Support for persistently mapped memory: Just allocate with appropriate flag and you get access to mapped pointer.
- Support for non-coherent memory. Functions that flush/invalidate memory. nonCoherentAtomSize is respected automatically.
- Support for non-coherent memory. Functions that flush/invalidate memory. `nonCoherentAtomSize` is respected automatically.
- Custom memory pools: Create a pool with desired parameters (e.g. fixed or limited maximum size) and allocate memory out of it.
- Linear allocator: Create a pool with linear algorithm and use it for much faster allocations and deallocations in free-at-once, stack, double stack, or ring buffer fashion.
- Support for VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation extension: Just enable it and it will be used automatically by the library.
@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Additional features:
- Public interface in C, in same convention as Vulkan API. Implementation in C++.
- Error handling implemented by returning `VkResult` error codes - same way as in Vulkan.
- Interface documented using Doxygen-style comments.
- Platform-independent, but developed and tested on Windows using Visual Studio. Continuous integration setup for Windows and Linux. Tested also on Android and MacOS.
- Platform-independent, but developed and tested on Windows using Visual Studio. Continuous integration setup for Windows and Linux. Tested also on Android, MacOS, and other platforms.
# Example
@ -94,12 +94,16 @@ See **[Documentation](https://gpuopen-librariesandsdks.github.io/VulkanMemoryAll
# Software using this library
- **[Filament](https://github.com/google/filament)** - physically based rendering engine for Android, Windows, Linux and macOS, from Google. Apache License 2.0.
- **[Skia](https://github.com/google/skia)** - complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images, from Google.
- **[PowerVR SDK](https://github.com/powervr-graphics/Native_SDK)** - C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK, from Imagination. License: MIT.
- **[Anvil](https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/Anvil)** - cross-platform framework for Vulkan. License: MIT.
- **[vkDOOM3](https://github.com/DustinHLand/vkDOOM3)** - Vulkan port of GPL DOOM 3 BFG Edition. License: GNU GPL.
- **[Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL)](https://www.lwjgl.org/)** - includes binding of the library for Java. License: BSD.
- **[The Forge](https://github.com/ConfettiFX/The-Forge)** - cross-platform rendering framework. Apache License 2.0.
- **[VK9](https://github.com/disks86/VK9)** - Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan. Zlib lincese.
[Many other projects on GitHub](https://github.com/search?q=AMD_VULKAN_MEMORY_ALLOCATOR_H&type=Code) and some game development studios that use Vulkan in their games.
# See also
- **[Awesome Vulkan](https://github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan)** - a curated list of awesome Vulkan libraries, debuggers and resources.