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WebGPU: copyBufferToBuffer overload

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Proposed (Chrome Proposed)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Functionality added to the WebGPU spec after its first shipment in a browser. The GPUCommandEncoder copyBufferToBuffer() method now includes a simpler way to copy entire buffers using a new overload with optional offsets and size parameters.

Motivation

To simplify the copy of entire buffers, a new overload has been added to the GPUCommandEncoder copyBufferToBuffer() method, allowing developers to omit offsets and size parameters. https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/5098

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#dom-gpucommandencoder-copybuffertobuffer
• Firefox: No signal — Mozilla members have requested during weekly standardization meetings that we don't file standard positions anymore as we reached Candidate Recommendation (CR) status.
• Safari: Closed Without a Position
• Web developers: Positive

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