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The new release provides a range of benefits to application developers, including: increased performance for vertex arrays and fence sync objects; improved pipeline programmability, including geometry shaders in the OpenGL core; and improved cube map visual quality and multisampling rendering flexibility.

Intended for C++ programmers familiar with computer graphics, the book describes the OpenGL drawing primitive types and how to render them with the vertex array and buffer object features, the transformation pipeline, lighting parameters, pixel rectangles, and 2D texture mapping.

2 has been designed to run on a wide range of recent GPU silicon and provides a wide range of significant benefits to application developers, including: * Increased performance for vertex arrays and fence sync objects to avoid idling while waiting for resources shared between the CPU and GPU, or multiple CPU threads; * Improved pipeline programmability, including geometry shaders in the OpenGL core; * Boosted cube map visual quality and multisampling rendering flexibility by enabling shaders to directly process texture samples.