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IIRC somebody said during one of 2015 SIGGRAPH presentations when it was introduced that it's the fifth iteration if you count SPIR pre-1.0, 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 p
by slavik81 7y ago
IIRC somebody said during one of 2015 SIGGRAPH presentations when it was introduced that it's the fifth iteration if you count SPIR pre-1.0, 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 preceding it. They may have been joking.
Of course, the V in Vulkan also stems from 5. Vulkan was originally going to be OpenGL 5. That plan changed, but they chose a name starting with V as a nod to that history.
- gmueckl 7y agoI'm sure that the name is alsona nod to Mantle, the direct predecessor. I haven't seen the Mantle documentation, but rumor has ot that Vulkan 1.0 initially was little more than Mantle with renamed identifiers.
- slavik81 7y agoYeah. There were a lot of reasons why it was a good name. This panel briefly discussed the naming process: https://youtu.be/0b3x5Tlh6g0?t=2m30s https://youtu.be/0b3x5Tlh6g0?t=2m30s