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Improve descriptor management. #162
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Describe your problem
The current descriptor management process is somewhat tedious and exhibits several pitfalls, especially when trying to implement bind-less renderers.
Describe your proposed solution
The first major improvement involves replacing the default descriptor management in Vulkan with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer. This allows to provide a unified descriptor management architecture for both backends and hopefully reduces maintenance effort in the future. Furthermore, it should also remove any heuristic assumptions regarding descriptor pools and their sizes and make descriptor management more efficient.
Next, we should attempt to implement direct resource heap access as provided by SM 6.6 dynamic resources. In Vulkan, this can be done using VK_EXT_mutable_descriptor_type. A sample and test for this would be nice.
The above should also enable us to provide a less restrictive way for external libraries to allocate descriptors, as already described in #155.
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