- Add MVKCompressor template class, and mvkCompress() & mvkDecompress()
functions to support general data compression.
- Add MVKConfiguration::shaderSourceCompressionAlgorithm and
env var MVK_CONFIG_SHADER_COMPRESSION_ALGORITHM to support
compressing MSL shader source code held in a pipeline cache.
- Add MVKShaderCompilationPerformance::mslCompress and mslDecompress
to allow performance of MSL compression to be tracked and queried.
- Add support for logging performance stats accumulated in a VkDevice,
when it is destroyed. Good for CTS testing.
- Change MVKConfiguration::logActivityPerformanceInline boolean to
activityPerformanceLoggingStyle enumeration value.
- Add MVK_CONFIG_ACTIVITY_PERFORMANCE_LOGGING_STYLE environment variable and
build setting to set MVKConfiguration::activityPerformanceLoggingStyle value.
- Support option to use MTLEvents for Vulkan semaphores on NVIDIA and Rosetta2.
- Add public MVKVkSemaphoreSupportStyle enumeration.
- MVKConfiguration replace deprecated legacy booleans semaphoreUseMTLEvent,
and semaphoreUseMTLFence with enumerated semaphoreSupportStyle.
- Alias legacy semaphoreUseMTLEvent to semaphoreSupportStyle and support legacy
use of semaphoreUseMTLFence and semaphoreUseMTLEvent for backwards compatibility.
- MVKConfiguration rename recently renamed semaphoreUseSingleQueue back to
semaphoreUseMTLFence for backwards compatibility.
VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing extension is enabled.
- Change MVKConfiguration::useMetalArgumentBuffers to enum instead of boolean
and default to enabling Metal argument buffers for VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing.
- Leave Metal argument buffers disabled by default until they are improved.
- Enable VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan12Features::descriptorIndexing.
- Add MVKPhysicalDeviceVulkan12FeaturesNoExt to track and enable Vulkan 1.2
features not part of any prior extensions absorbed by Vulkan 1.2.
- Update VK_MVK_MOLTENVK_SPEC_VERSION to version `36`.
- MVKDeviceTrackingMixin remove unnecessary inline declarations.
- MoltenShaderConveter tool support Metal Argument Buffers and MSL 3.0.
- Enable shaderSignedZeroInfNanPreserveFloat16 and
shaderSignedZeroInfNanPreserveFloat32.
Other float control properties are not settable in Metal.
- MVKShaderModule log whether compiling with fast math enabled.
- Update MoltenVK_Runtime_UserGuide.md and Whats_New.md documents.
- runcts script enable MVK_CONFIG_FAST_MATH_ENABLED by default.
Per cdavis5e observation:
Since an MVKArrayRef<T> is just a pointer and a size, passing it around by
reference doesn't buy much. It might actually hurt performance, since cache
lines might be evicted to make room for the MVKArrayRef in memory.
For this reason, LLVM passes its ArrayRefs by value.
Unrelatedly, update runcts to log errors by default.
