[rkevingibson]

Generally I agree, but the bindless approach can give you both ergonomics and performance in some cases (not all). Certainly it can reduce CPU overhead - passing a single pointer to a shader is much faster than heavy bind group updates. The trade off is that you might have more pointer indirection on the GPU, which can introduce stalls.

Being able to use pointers and u64s for resources also makes having a shared header between shader and c++ source easier, though you still probably need some macro trickery to smooth over language differences. Metal is really good for this since the shading language is closest to C++.

[coxmi]

> but the bindless approach can give you both ergonomics and performance in some cases (not all). Certainly it can reduce CPU overhead - passing a single pointer to a shader is much faster than heavy bind group updates. The trade off is that you might have more pointer indirection on the GPU, which can introduce stalls.

Yeah I'm totally with you there, it just feels like the interfaces aren't that pleasant at the moment (although I've not tried Metal)

Edit: didn't realise you were the project author, I think it's great by the way!