Today, we’ll be looking at a fairly simple, but fundamental concept in modern APIs, and using it to springboard onto talking about some different GPU architectures, and that is, the “PSO”, or “Pipeline State Object”. Motivating this necessity is one of the main design considerations of modern graphics APIs, and that is, predictable performance. Basically, the goal is that for every function call in the API, you can reliably group it into one of two categories: either it returns pret...
