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On 3/24/2014 11:40 PM, Mark Callow
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Indeed. I didn't see such a query in this extension, but that would be ideal. Even better would be an extension that would let you specify a specific behaviour, even at a performance cost. The driver can almost certainly do a more efficient job at protecting/checking this than something sitting on top of GL can. They provide a security benefit, but for any other buffer accesses (e.g. those added in a future WebGL 2/ES3.0/ES3.1), it seems that WebGL implementations will still need to do the validation and emulation of zero-read/no-op-write at which point the value of ARB_rbab for performance reasons goes down significantly.I don't understand this point. What other way of accessing the buffer can there be other than read and write? Sorry, I meant accessing buffers used as something other than vertex arrays.. though now that I read the actual GL spec in conjunction with the extension, I see that the section in the extension that actually defines the desired behaviour (0 on read, discard on write) is only for client-side vertex arrays (section 2.8). WebGL doesn't have or use client-side vertex arrays. Vertex arrays in buffer objects is section 2.9, and it has the "or" language.. so it can't be depended on without a query to see what actually happens. So I don't see this extension as actually providing any significant performance benefit for WebGL, unfortunately. Even the fully-defined texel fetches on incomplete textures language doesn't help.. what WebGL considers incomplete and what OpenGL considers incomplete might differ (WebGL might have a stricter definition, e.g. if relevant WebGL extensions aren't enabled). - Vlad |