Appendix B. Glossary
API Acronym for application programming interface. An API is a set of functions, classes, and tokens used to define a particular set of software tools. OpenGL is an API for graphics.
ARB See OpenGL Architecture Review Board.
Context sharing Reusing resources from one OpenGL context in another OpenGL context.
Deferred validation The caching or postponement of data or state changes in OpenGL until these changes are required at drawing time.
Direct memory access A hardware-to-hardware fetching of data. In the context of graphics, it usually entails the GPU fetching data from a region of specially mapped or reserved host system memory.
Display capture To take over a particular display as part of a full-screen application. ...
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