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izacus on June 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The case for memory-mapped GPU assets

Isn't that exactly how it's done right now?

creshal on June 13, 2016 [–]

Ish. Right now, games explicitly handle resource loading/unloading from/to RAM in userspace. Using memory-mapped texture files would allow utilizing proven and much faster kernel infrastructure for this.

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