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		PopsiclePete on Feb 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vulkan in 30 minutes Ok so is Vulkan basically assembly code targeting GPU's? If so, my only question is - why the heck did it take so long for it to get here?

ajuc on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

It's more like C than like assembly.

Different GPUs have different machine codes, Vulkan is abstracting away the differences, but tries (like C) to be simple abstraction close to the real thing.

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