Metal Pipeline

Metal compute pipeline wrapper — MSL source or precompiled metallib.

It compiles or loads Metal kernels, exposes the threadgroup capabilities that dispatch code needs for tuning, and keeps pipeline lifecycle handling out of the higher-level runtime and benchmark paths.

4 exports 0 methods src/metal/pipeline.zig

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struct

MetalPipeline

pub const MetalPipeline = struct

A compiled Metal compute pipeline state ready for dispatch.

src/metal/pipeline.zig:11

function

createPipeline

pub fn createPipeline(ctx: ?*shim.MetalCtx, msl_source: [*:0]const u8, fn_name: [*:0]const u8) !MetalPipeline

Compile an MSL source string into a compute pipeline for the given function name.

src/metal/pipeline.zig:26

function

createPipelineFromLib

pub fn createPipelineFromLib(ctx: ?*shim.MetalCtx, lib_data: [*]const u8, lib_size: usize, fn_name: [*:0]const u8) !MetalPipeline

Create a compute pipeline from a precompiled metallib binary blob.

src/metal/pipeline.zig:49

function

freePipeline

pub fn freePipeline(pipe: *MetalPipeline) void

Release the pipeline handle.

Safe to call with a null handle.

src/metal/pipeline.zig:61