Re: [oglbase-discuss] 2nd draft: GL_EXT_get_proc_address spec

[Bernd Kreimeier]

Keith Whitwell writes:
 >      - Contexts are well specified and will have to be mastered
 >      - Context dependent pointer results are not a new concept
 
 > applications [need] to do their own branching 
 >  if they use multiple contexts

I agree. I fail to see how application-side management of
context-specific pointers is inherently more complex than 
application-side management of contexts. 

I do see the convenience of moving the management code into 
the GL implementation, but the price is adding this overhead
to the single context case, and the only question here is
whether this mandatory internal indirection is really worth 
the convenience.

Remember that context-specific extensions have to be dealt 
with application-side in any case.


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