Vulkan is initialized even for GL tests

[ripper37]

Vulkan is initialized even for GL tests

[RippeR37]

As suggested, this is mainly to compare both APIs so it' doesn't make sense that user should select which APIs will be enabled (if there are only two of them). So for now, such functionality will not be implemented anytime soon.

Maybe in the future there will be a CMake switch to disable Vulkan side, but for now there are no such plans.

[mirh]

Tbh I was just imaging the program to load vulkan when vulkan is requested.
Not as sooner than almost everything else like now.

[RippeR37]

Again - this is a project for my master's thesis and it's strictly meant to compare these two APIs, so no point in having only one of these. Also loading library dynamically just before launching given test is messy and AFAIK system-dependent so I'm not even considering going this way.

Other solution would be to build different executables for each API and this would be much cleaner, but again - not in scope of this project.

PS. Note that you don't need Vulkan-supporting GPUs or even drivers, you only need Vulkan loader for it to work. So it's not like somebody really can't use this.

[mirh]

Nice to know all, thank you.

[mirh]

Just tested.
You don't know how much valuable your testcases are, they are really showing the difference I was looking for. Really, really thank you.