> and are still accessed through big blocks of fixed function hardware that are very much still relevant
But is it relevant for malloc? Everthing is put into the same physical device memory, so what difference would the usage flag make? Specialized texture fetching and caching hardware would come into play anyway when you start fetching texels via samplers.
> It seems like the functionality is the same, just the memory usage is implicit in cuMemAlloc instead of being typed out? If it's that big of a deal write a wrapper function and be done with it?
The main reason I did not even give VMA a chance is the github example that does in 7 lines what Cuda would do in 2. You now say it's not too bad, but that's not reflected in the very first VMA examples.
But is it relevant for malloc? Everthing is put into the same physical device memory, so what difference would the usage flag make? Specialized texture fetching and caching hardware would come into play anyway when you start fetching texels via samplers.
> It seems like the functionality is the same, just the memory usage is implicit in cuMemAlloc instead of being typed out? If it's that big of a deal write a wrapper function and be done with it?
The main reason I did not even give VMA a chance is the github example that does in 7 lines what Cuda would do in 2. You now say it's not too bad, but that's not reflected in the very first VMA examples.