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		flohofwoe on July 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vulkan Memory Allocator Yeah, but that doesn't seem to have helped much to keep the Vulkan API small and tidy, instead there are dozens (or maybe hundreds by now?) of vendor-specific extensions.

skohan on July 21, 2021 [–]

I think this is vastly overstated. I've done quite a bit of work for Vulkan, and have done just fine without reaching for extensions.

And how else do you propose accessing hardware features which are vendor specific?

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