Native Array Overloads for Shader Uniform Setters
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Description:
Shader uniform/constant inputs can be set on a per-frame basis, using the Shader and Material APIs.
Introduce new Native Array overloads for the existing shader uniform setter functions, in order to enable additional CPU and memory usage optimization when processing shader uniform data.
Such functionality would provide additional control over memory management, and allow to reduce garbage collection overhead via the utilization of native arrays and temp allocators.
When creating native arrays using unmanage types, Burst Jobs could also be used, in order to parallelize and further optimize the processing of shader data on the CPU.
Expected Outcome:
- Native Array overloads are available for shader uniform setter functions, enabling additional CPU and memory management optimizations when processing large amounts of shader uniform data.