RandyGaul
Dropping calls when sending too much drawable data to the GPU
Currently CF drops draw calls if too much data is requested to be sent to the GPU and issues a printed warning to stderr. This should work fairly well for development, but, an alternative may be much better.
Instead of dropping the draw call the vertices can be stored on the CPU in temporary memory, to be flushed to the GPU later. This would allow the entire system to handle temporary stalls in framerate, and simply render things a bit slower until the GPU catches up. The temporary overflow buffer can also fill up, at which point the entire CPU needs to hang and wait for the GPU, and a loud warning can be printed that to explain how the entire process is simply GPU bound.
Related https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_framework/issues/42
Relevant advice https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/681#issuecomment-1165835470
I think this is acceptable default behavior as there's no simple and cross-platform way to block on GPU stalls