Khronos Delays Vulkan Graphics API To 2016 Release (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:50AM from the a-vulcan-is-never-late dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Khronos Group has announced that the Vulkan specification is complete and undergoing legal review and final polishing, but it means that Vulkan will not be published this year. Khronos reports that the Vulkan 1.0 specification will be published when the first conformant implementations are confirmed. Phoronix received some more details about the state of Vulkan in that there were a lot of changes since GDC and " the gating factor for release will be availability of product-quality implementations."

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What the fuck is "Vulkan"? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-18 13:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

So what the fuck is this "Vulkan" thing?
The summary should say what it is, but doesn't.
We shouldn't have to Google for the answer, either.
Even if we did, it probably wouldn't help!
The Vulkan website is very vague. It's full of buzzwords like "next generation", "open standard", "API", and "high-efficiency", without actually saying what the fuck it is!
Can anyone tell us just what the fuck this Vulkan thing actually is and what it actually does?!