Non-texture output

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Does Metal support parallel processing of an input texture to produce a non-texture output? For example, generating a string from the pixel values?

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Sure, Metal supports writing to buffers as well. At least from compute kernels. Of course, if you want to write data with not fixed size, things get a little complicated, because you may need to do parallel prefix sums or something like that. Fixed size data is trivial.

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Sure, Metal supports writing to buffers as well. At least from compute kernels. Of course, if you want to write data with not fixed size, things get a little complicated, because you may need to do parallel prefix sums or something like that. Fixed size data is trivial.

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