Quick change to hello triangle to comply with WebGPU requirements on alignment. Long term it would check for which backend is in use

Revert "Dawn change to enable writeBuffer for size != multiple of 4"
This reverts commit b94c802076.
2025-05-14 19:59:34 -04:00 · 2025-05-14 19:58:11 -04:00
494 changed files with 41149 additions and 51146 deletions
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true
 SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
 SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: false
 SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
-SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 0
 SpacesInAngles: false
 SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
 SpacesInContainerLiterals: false
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-name: 'Get commit message'
-outputs:
-  msg:
-    value: ${{ steps.action_output.outputs.msg }}
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: Find commit message (on push)
-      if: github.event_name == 'push'
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        AUTHOR_NAME="${{ github.event.head_commit.author.name }}"
-        AUTHOR_EMAIL="${{ github.event.head_commit.author.email }}"
-        TSTAMP="${{ github.event.head_commit.timestamp }}"
-        echo "commit ${{ github.event.head_commit.id }}" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-        echo "Author: ${AUTHOR_NAME}<${AUTHOR_EMAIL}>" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-        echo "Date: ${TSTAMP}" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-        echo "" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-        echo "${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-    - name: Find commit message (PR)
-      shell: bash
-      id: checkout_code
-      if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-      run: |
-        echo "+++++ head commit message +++++"
-        echo "$(git log -1 --no-merges)"
-        echo "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
-        echo "hash=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        git checkout ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-        echo "$(git log -1 --no-merges)" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-    - shell: bash
-      id: action_output
-      run: |
-        DELIMITER="EOF_FILE_CONTENT_$(date +%s)" # Using timestamp to make it more unique
-        echo "msg<<$DELIMITER" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        cat /tmp/commit_msg.txt >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "$DELIMITER" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "----- got commit message ---"
-        cat /tmp/commit_msg.txt
-        echo "----------------------------"
-    - name: Cleanup Find commit message (PR)
-      shell: bash
-      if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-      run: |
-        git checkout ${{ steps.checkout_code.outputs.hash }}
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-name: 'Post-submit tasks'
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-
-jobs:
-  update-renderdiff-goldens:
-    name: update-renderdiff-goldens
-    runs-on: 'ubuntu-24.04-4core'
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - uses: ./.github/actions/linux-prereq
-      - id: get_commit_msg
-        uses: ./.github/actions/get-commit-msg
-      - name: Prerequisites
-        run: pip install tifffile numpy
-      - name: Run update script
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FILAMENTBOT_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          GOLDEN_BRANCH=$(echo "${{ steps.get_commit_msg.outputs.msg }}" | python3 test/renderdiff/src/commit_msg.py)
-          COMMIT_HASH=$(echo "${{ steps.get_commit_msg.outputs.msg }}" | head -n 1 | tr -d 'commit ')
-          if [[ "${GOLDEN_BRANCH}" != "main" ]]; then
-              git config --global user.email "filament.bot@gmail.com"
-              git config --global user.name "Filament Bot"
-              git config --global credential.helper cache
-              echo "branch==${GOLDEN_BRANCH}"
-              echo "hash==${COMMIT_HASH}"
-              python3 test/renderdiff/src/update_golden.py --branch=${GOLDEN_BRANCH} \
-                  --merge-to-main --filament-tag=${COMMIT_HASH} --golden-repo-token=${GH_TOKEN}
-          fi
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ name: Presubmit
 on:
  push:
    branches:
-      - main
+    - main
  pull_request:
    branches:
-      - main
+    - main

 jobs:
  build-desktop-mac:
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ jobs:

  build-windows:
    name: build-windows
-    runs-on: windows-2022-32core
+    runs-on: win-2019-16core
+
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
        with:
@@ -109,9 +110,9 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Check for manual edits to /docs
        run: |
-          echo "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} -- ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
-          # disable for now
-          # bash docs_src/build/presubmit_check.sh ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+           echo "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} -- ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}"
+           # disable for now
+           # bash docs_src/build/presubmit_check.sh ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}

  test-renderdiff:
    name: test-renderdiff
@@ -120,21 +121,20 @@ jobs:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
-      - id: get_commit_msg
-        uses: ./.github/actions/get-commit-msg
      - uses: ./.github/actions/mac-prereq
      - name: Cache Mesa and deps
+        id: mesa-cache
        uses: actions/cache@v4
        with:
          path: mesa
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-mesa-deps-2-${{ vars.MESA_VERSION }}
      - name: Prerequisites
+        id: prereqs
        run: |
          bash build/common/get-mesa.sh
          pip install tifffile numpy
      - name: Run Test
-        run: |
-          echo "${{ steps.get_commit_msg.outputs.msg }}" | bash test/renderdiff/test.sh
+        run: bash test/renderdiff/test.sh
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          name: presubmit-renderdiff-result
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ jobs:

  build-windows:
    name: build-windows
-    runs-on: windows-2022-32core
+    runs-on: windows-2019-32core
    if: github.event_name == 'release' || github.event.inputs.platform == 'windows'

    steps:
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
  build-windows:
    name: build-windows
-    runs-on: windows-2022-32core
+    runs-on: windows-2019-32core

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4.1.6
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ Make sure you've installed the following dependencies:
 - `libxcomposite-dev` (`libXcomposite-devel` on Fedora)
 - `libxxf86vm-dev` (`libXxf86vm-devel` on Fedora)

-```shell
-sudo apt install clang-14 libglu1-mesa-dev libc++-14-dev libc++abi-14-dev ninja-build libxi-dev libxcomposite-dev libxxf86vm-dev -y
-```
-
 After dependencies have been installed, we highly recommend using the [easy build](#easy-build)
 script.

@@ -49,12 +49,6 @@ option(FILAMENT_SUPPORTS_OSMESA "Enable OSMesa (headless GL context) for Filamen

 option(FILAMENT_ENABLE_FGVIEWER "Enable the frame graph viewer" OFF)

-option(FILAMENT_USE_ABSEIL_LOGGING "Use Abseil to log, may increase binary size" OFF)
-
-# This is to disable GTAO for the short-term while we investigate a way to better manage size increases.
-# On the regular filament build (where size is of less concern), we enable GTAO by default.
-option(FILAMENT_DISABLE_GTAO "Disable GTAO" OFF)
-
 set(FILAMENT_NDK_VERSION "" CACHE STRING
    "Android NDK version or version prefix to be used when building for Android."
 )
@@ -593,10 +587,6 @@ if (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "Debug" AND NOT FILAMENT_BACKEND_DEBUG_FLAG STREQU
    unset(FILAMENT_BACKEND_DEBUG_FLAG)
 endif()

-if (FILAMENT_USE_ABSEIL_LOGGING)
-    add_definitions(-DFILAMENT_USE_ABSEIL_LOGGING)
-endif()
-
 # ==================================================================================================
 # Material compilation flags
 # ==================================================================================================
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Filament Release Notes log

 **If you are merging a PR into main**: please add the release note below, under the *Release notes
-We are chaning the way Vulkan buffers are handled. We need to switch over to a managed (or view-based) model where the data stored inside the object is a proxy to a Vulkan object that can dynamically be swapped around.
+for next branch cut* header.

 **If you are cherry-picking a commit into an rc/ branch**: add the release note under the
 appropriate header in [RELEASE_NOTES.md](./RELEASE_NOTES.md).
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ repositories {
 }

 dependencies {
-    implementation 'com.google.android.filament:filament-android:1.61.1'
+    implementation 'com.google.android.filament:filament-android:1.60.0'
 }
 ```

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Here are all the libraries available in the group `com.google.android.filament`:
 iOS projects can use CocoaPods to install the latest release:

 ```shell
-pod 'Filament', '~> 1.61.1'
+pod 'Filament', '~> 1.60.0'
 ```

 ## Documentation
@@ -7,21 +7,6 @@ A new header is inserted each time a *tag* is created.
 Instead, if you are authoring a PR for the main branch, add your release note to
 [NEW_RELEASE_NOTES.md](./NEW_RELEASE_NOTES.md).

-## v1.62.0
-
- samples: samples now have a CLI to select backend api
- materials: sampler now export their type in the material binary [⚠️ **New Material Version**]
- materials: new mutable specialization constants feature. See the [materials documentation](https://google.github.io/filament/Materials.html) for details. [⚠️ **New Material Version**]
-
-## v1.61.1
-
-
-## v1.61.0
-
- materials: sampler now export their type in the material binary [⚠️ **New Material Version**]
- samples/texturedquad.cpp now has CLI to select backend api
- samples/hellopbr.cpp CLI now allows for selecting webgpu
-
 ## v1.60.1


@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ add_library(smol-v STATIC IMPORTED)
 set_target_properties(smol-v PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION
        ${FILAMENT_DIR}/lib/${ANDROID_ABI}/libsmol-v.a)

-add_library(abseil STATIC IMPORTED)
-set_target_properties(abseil PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION
-        ${FILAMENT_DIR}/lib/${ANDROID_ABI}/libabseil.a)
-
 if (FILAMENT_ENABLE_FGVIEWER)
    add_library(fgviewer STATIC IMPORTED)
    set_target_properties(fgviewer PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION
@@ -132,7 +128,6 @@ target_link_libraries(filament-jni
    PRIVATE jnigraphics
    PRIVATE utils
    PRIVATE perfetto
-    PRIVATE abseil

    # libgeometry is PUBLIC because gltfio uses it.
    PUBLIC geometry
@@ -60,14 +60,6 @@ static void setParameter(JNIEnv* env, jlong nativeMaterialInstance, jstring name
    env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(name_, name);
 }

-template<typename T>
-static void setConstant(JNIEnv* env, jlong nativeMaterialInstance, jstring name_, T v) {
-    MaterialInstance* instance = (MaterialInstance*) nativeMaterialInstance;
-    const char *name = env->GetStringUTFChars(name_, 0);
-    instance->setConstant(name, v);
-    env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(name_, name);
-}
-
 extern "C"
 JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
 Java_com_google_android_filament_MaterialInstance_nSetParameterBool(JNIEnv *env, jclass,
@@ -272,13 +264,6 @@ Java_com_google_android_filament_MaterialInstance_nSetParameterTexture(
    env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(name_, name);
 }

-extern "C"
-JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
-Java_com_google_android_filament_MaterialInstance_nSetConstantBool(JNIEnv *env, jclass,
-        jlong nativeMaterialInstance, jstring name_, jboolean x) {
-    setConstant(env, nativeMaterialInstance, name_, bool(x));
-}
-
 extern "C"
 JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
 Java_com_google_android_filament_MaterialInstance_nSetScissor(
@@ -402,16 +402,6 @@ public class MaterialInstance {
        nSetParameterFloat4(getNativeObject(), name, color[0], color[1], color[2], color[3]);
    }

-    /**
-     * Sets the value of a bool constant.
-     *
-     * @param name the name of the material constant
-     * @param x    the value of the material constant
-     */
-    public void setConstant(@NonNull String name, boolean x) {
-        nSetConstantBool(getNativeObject(), name, x);
-    }
-
    /**
     * Set-up a custom scissor rectangle; by default it is disabled.
     *
@@ -931,9 +921,6 @@ public class MaterialInstance {
            @NonNull String name, int element, @NonNull @Size(min = 1) float[] v,
            @IntRange(from = 0) int offset, @IntRange(from = 1) int count);

-    private static native void nSetConstantBool(long nativeMaterialInstance,
-            @NonNull String name, boolean x);
-
    private static native void nSetParameterTexture(long nativeMaterialInstance,
            @NonNull String name, long nativeTexture, long sampler);

@@ -1801,22 +1801,6 @@ public class View {
     * @see setAmbientOcclusionOptions()
     */
    public static class AmbientOcclusionOptions {
-        public enum AmbientOcclusionType {
-            /**
-             * use Scalable Ambient Occlusion
-             */
-            SAO,
-            /**
-             * use Ground Truth-Based Ambient Occlusion
-             */
-            GTAO,
-        }
-
-        /**
-         * Type of ambient occlusion algorithm.
-         */
-        @NonNull
-        public AmbientOcclusionOptions.AmbientOcclusionType aoType = AmbientOcclusionOptions.AmbientOcclusionType.SAO;
        /**
         * Ambient Occlusion radius in meters, between 0 and ~10.
         */
@@ -1826,8 +1810,7 @@ public class View {
         */
        public float power = 1.0f;
        /**
-         * Self-occlusion bias in meters. Use to avoid self-occlusion.
-         * Between 0 and a few mm. No effect when aoType set to GTAO
+         * Self-occlusion bias in meters. Use to avoid self-occlusion. Between 0 and a few mm.
         */
        public float bias = 0.0005f;
        /**
@@ -1843,12 +1826,12 @@ public class View {
         */
        public float bilateralThreshold = 0.05f;
        /**
-         * affects # of samples used for AO and params for filtering
+         * affects # of samples used for AO.
         */
        @NonNull
        public QualityLevel quality = QualityLevel.LOW;
        /**
-         * affects AO smoothness. Recommend setting to HIGH when aoType set to GTAO.
+         * affects AO smoothness
         */
        @NonNull
        public QualityLevel lowPassFilter = QualityLevel.MEDIUM;
@@ -1866,7 +1849,7 @@ public class View {
         */
        public boolean bentNormals = false;
        /**
-         * min angle in radian to consider. No effect when aoType set to GTAO.
+         * min angle in radian to consider
         */
        public float minHorizonAngleRad = 0.0f;
        /**
@@ -1921,19 +1904,6 @@ public class View {
         */
        public boolean ssctEnabled = false;

-        /**
-         * Ground Truth-base Ambient Occlusion (GTAO) options
-         */
-        public int gtaoSampleSliceCount = 4;
-        /**
-         * Ground Truth-base Ambient Occlusion (GTAO) options
-         */
-        public int gtaoSampleStepsPerSlice = 3;
-        /**
-         * Ground Truth-base Ambient Occlusion (GTAO) options
-         */
-        public float gtaoThicknessHeuristic = 0.004f;
-
    }

    /**
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 GROUP=com.google.android.filament
-VERSION_NAME=1.61.1
+VERSION_NAME=1.60.0

 POM_DESCRIPTION=Real-time physically based rendering engine for Android.

@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ for cmd in "${NEEDED_PYTHON_DEPS[@]}"; do
 done
 deactivate

-LOCAL_PKG_CONFIG_PATH=
-
 # Install system deps
 if [[ "$OS_NAME" == "Linux" ]]; then
    if [[ "$GITHUB_WORKFLOW" ]]; then
@@ -84,9 +82,6 @@ elif [[ "$OS_NAME" == "Darwin" ]]; then
        fi
    fi
    HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=true brew install autoconf automake libx11 libxext libxrandr llvm@${LLVM_VERSION} ninja meson pkg-config libxshmfence
-
-    # For reasons unknown, this is necessary for pkg-config to find homebrew's packages
-    LOCAL_PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/homebrew/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
 fi # [[ "$OS_NAME" == x ]]

 LOCAL_LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}
@@ -139,11 +134,9 @@ fi
 # -Dgallium-drivers=swrast  => builds GL software rasterizer
 # -Dvulkan-drivers=swrast   => builds VK software rasterizer
 # -Dgallium-drivers=llvmpipe is needed for GL >= 4.1 pipe-screen (see src/gallium/auxiliary/target-helpers/inline_sw_helper.h)
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${LOCAL_PKG_CONFIG_PATH} PATH=${LOCAL_PATH} \
-CXX=${LOCAL_CXX} CC=${LOCAL_CC} LDFLAGS=${LOCAL_LDFLAGS} CPPFLAGS=${LOCAL_CPPFLAGS} \
+CXX=${LOCAL_CXX} CC=${LOCAL_CC} PATH=${LOCAL_PATH} LDFLAGS=${LOCAL_LDFLAGS} CPPFLAGS=${LOCAL_CPPFLAGS} \
   meson setup --wipe builddir/ -Dprefix="${MESA_DIR}/out" -Dglx=xlib -Dosmesa=true -Dgallium-drivers=llvmpipe,swrast -Dvulkan-drivers=swrast
-PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${LOCAL_PKG_CONFIG_PATH} PATH=${LOCAL_PATH} \
-CXX=${LOCAL_CXX} CC=${LOCAL_CC} LDFLAGS=${LOCAL_LDFLAGS} CPPFLAGS=${LOCAL_CPPFLAGS} \
+CXX=${LOCAL_CXX} CC=${LOCAL_CC} PATH=${LOCAL_PATH} LDFLAGS=${LOCAL_LDFLAGS} CPPFLAGS=${LOCAL_CPPFLAGS} \
   meson install -C builddir/

 # Disable python venv
@@ -47,11 +47,7 @@ if "%RUNNING_LOCALLY%" == "1" (
    set "PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\7-Zip"
 )

-:: Outdated windows-2019 pattern
-:: call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\%VISUAL_STUDIO_VERSION%\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
-
-call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\%VISUAL_STUDIO_VERSION%\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
-echo Passed vcvars64.bat
+call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\%VISUAL_STUDIO_VERSION%\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
 if errorlevel 1 exit /b %errorlevel%

 msbuild /version
@@ -111,7 +107,7 @@ cd out\cmake-%variant%
 if errorlevel 1 exit /b %errorlevel%

 cmake ..\.. ^
-    -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" ^
+    -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" ^
    -A x64 ^
    %flag% ^
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\%variant% ^
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ when using textures.
 This property can dramatically change the appearance of a surface. Non-metallic surfaces have
 chromatic diffuse reflection and achromatic specular reflection (reflected light does not change
 color). Metallic surfaces do not have any diffuse reflection and chromatic specular reflection
-(reflected light takes on the color of the surfaced as defined by `baseColor`).
+(reflected light takes on the color of the surfaced as defined by `baseColor`). 

 The effect of `metallic` is shown in figure [metallicProperty] (click on the image to see a
 larger version).
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ The effect of `roughness` on metallic surfaces is shown in figure [roughnessCond
 When refraction through an object is enabled (using a `refractonType` of `thin` or `solid`), the
 `roughness` property will also affect the refractions, as shown in figure
 [roughnessRefractionProperty] (click on the image to see a larger version).
-
+                             
 ![Figure [roughnessRefractionProperty]: Refractive sphere with `roughness` varying from 0.0
 (left) to 1.0 (right)](images/materials/refraction_roughness.png)

@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ The sheen color controls the color appearance and strength of an optional sheen
 base layer described by the properties above. The sheen layer always sits below the clear coat layer
 if such a layer is present.

-The sheen layer can be used to represent cloth and fabric materials. Please refer to
+The sheen layer can be used to represent cloth and fabric materials. Please refer to 
 section [Cloth model] for more information about cloth and fabric materials.

 The effect of `sheenColor` is shown in figure [materialSheenColor]
@@ -519,14 +519,14 @@ light to bend further away from the initial path.

 Table [commonMatIOR] describes acceptable refractive indices for various types of materials.

-Material                   |        IOR
+Material                   |        IOR       
 --------------------------:|:-----------------
 Air                        | 1.0
-Water                      | 1.33
-Common liquids             | 1.33 to 1.5
-Common gemstones           | 1.58 to 2.33
-Plastics, glass            | 1.5 to 1.58
-Other dielectric materials | 1.33 to 1.58
+Water                      | 1.33             
+Common liquids             | 1.33 to 1.5      
+Common gemstones           | 1.58 to 2.33     
+Plastics, glass            | 1.5 to 1.58      
+Other dielectric materials | 1.33 to 1.58     
 [Table [commonMatIOR]: Index of refraction of common materials]

 The appearance of a refractive material will greatly depend on the `refractionType` and
@@ -1091,37 +1091,30 @@ Value
    `bool` or `number`, depending on the `type` of the constant. The type must be one of the types
    described in table [materialConstantsTypes].

-    Constants may also be specified as mutable by setting the `mutable` property to `true`. Only
-    `bool` spec constants may be specified as mutable.
-
-| Type  | Description                   | Default | May be mutable? |
-|:------|:------------------------------|:--------|-----------------|
-| int   | A signed, 32 bit GLSL int     |         | no              |
-| float | A single-precision GLSL float | 0.0     | no              |
-| bool  | A GLSL bool                   | false   | yes             |
+         Type          |            Description                   |      Default
+:----------------------|:-----------------------------------------|:------------------
+int                    | A signed, 32 bit GLSL int                |         0
+float                  | A single-precision GLSL float            |         0.0
+bool                   | A GLSL bool                              |         false
 [Table [materialConstantsTypes]: Material constants types]

 Description
 :   Lists the constant parameters accepted by your material. These constants can be set, or
    "specialized", at runtime when loading a material package. Multiple materials can be loaded from
-    the same material package with differing constant parameter specializations. If a constant
-    parameter is specialized as mutable, it may be changed at any time on a per-instance basis via
-    `MaterialInstance::setConstant(name, value)`. Otherwise, once a material is loaded from a
-    material package, its constant parameters cannot be changed.
-
-    Compared to regular parameters, constant parameters allow the compiler to generate more
-    efficient code. Access constant parameters from the shader by prefixing the name with
-    `materialConstant_`. For example, a constant parameter named `myConstant` is accessed in the
-    shader as `materialConstant_myConstant`. If a constant parameter is not set at runtime, the
-    default is used.
+    the same material package with differing constant parameter specializations. Once a material is
+    loaded from a material package, its constant parameters cannot be changed. Compared to regular
+    parameters, constant parameters allow the compiler to generate more efficient code. Access
+    constant parameters from the shader by prefixing the name with `materialConstant_`. For example,
+    a constant parameter named `myConstant` is accessed in the shader as
+    `materialConstant_myConstant`. If a constant parameter is not set at runtime, the default is
+    used.

 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JSON
 material {
    constants : [
        {
           name : overrideAlpha,
-           type : bool,
-           mutable : true,
+           type : bool
        },
        {
           name : customAlpha,
@@ -2560,7 +2553,7 @@ standard skybox material. It produces a list of 2 parameters, named `showSun` an
 respectively a boolean and a cubemap texture.

 ```text
-$ matc --reflect parameters filament/src/materials/skybox.mat
+$ matc --reflect parameters filament/src/materials/skybox.mat 
 {
  "parameters": [
    {
@@ -2576,7 +2569,7 @@ $ matc --reflect parameters filament/src/materials/skybox.mat
    }
  ]
 }
-```
+``` 

 ### --variant-filter

@@ -265,13 +265,6 @@ set(MATERIAL_SRCS
        src/materials/vsmMipmap.mat
 )

-if (NOT FILAMENT_DISABLE_GTAO)
-    list(APPEND MATERIAL_SRCS
-        src/materials/ssao/gtao.mat
-        src/materials/ssao/gtaoBentNormals.mat
-    )
-endif()
-
 set(MATERIAL_FL0_SRCS
        src/materials/defaultMaterial.mat
        src/materials/skybox.mat
@@ -321,14 +314,12 @@ if (FILAMENT_FORCE_PROFILING_MODE)
    add_definitions(-DFILAMENT_FORCE_PROFILING_MODE)
 endif()

-if (FILAMENT_DISABLE_GTAO)
-    add_definitions(-DFILAMENT_DISABLE_GTAO)
-endif()
-
 # ==================================================================================================
 # Definitions
 # ==================================================================================================

+# "2" corresponds to SYSTRACE_TAG_FILEMENT (See: utils/Systrace.h)
+add_definitions(-DSYSTRACE_TAG=2)
 add_definitions(-DFILAMENT_DFG_LUT_SIZE=${DFG_LUT_SIZE})
 add_definitions(
    -DFILAMENT_PER_RENDER_PASS_ARENA_SIZE_IN_MB=${FILAMENT_PER_RENDER_PASS_ARENA_SIZE_IN_MB}
@@ -472,30 +463,6 @@ add_custom_command(
        APPEND
 )

-if (NOT FILAMENT_DISABLE_GTAO)
-    add_custom_command(
-            OUTPUT "${MATERIAL_DIR}/gtao.filamat"
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssaoUtils.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssct.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/utils/depthUtils.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/utils/geometry.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/gtaoImpl.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssctImpl.fs
-            APPEND
-    )
-
-    add_custom_command(
-            OUTPUT "${MATERIAL_DIR}/gtaoBentNormals.filamat"
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssaoUtils.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssct.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/utils/depthUtils.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/utils/geometry.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/gtaoImpl.fs
-            DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssctImpl.fs
-            APPEND
-    )
-endif()
-
 add_custom_command(
        OUTPUT "${MATERIAL_DIR}/bilateralBlur.filamat"
        DEPENDS src/materials/ssao/ssaoUtils.fs
@@ -601,10 +568,6 @@ target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC filaflat)
 target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC filabridge)
 target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC ibl-lite)

-if (FILAMENT_USE_ABSEIL_LOGGING)
-    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC absl::log)
-endif()
-
 if (FILAMENT_ENABLE_FGVIEWER)
    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC fgviewer)
    add_definitions(-DFILAMENT_ENABLE_FGVIEWER=1)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Copy your platform's Makefile below into a `Makefile` inside the same directory.
 ### Linux

 ```make
-FILAMENT_LIBS=-lfilament -lbackend -lbluegl -lbluevk -lfilabridge -lfilaflat -lutils -lgeometry -lsmol-v -lvkshaders -libl -labseil
+FILAMENT_LIBS=-lfilament -lbackend -lbluegl -lbluevk -lfilabridge -lfilaflat -lutils -lgeometry -lsmol-v -lvkshaders -libl
 CC=clang++

 main: main.o
@@ -110,13 +110,12 @@ clean:
 ### macOS

 ```make
-FILAMENT_LIBS=-lfilament -lbackend -lbluegl -lbluevk -lfilabridge -lfilaflat -lutils -lgeometry -lsmol-v -lvkshaders -libl -labseil
+FILAMENT_LIBS=-lfilament -lbackend -lbluegl -lbluevk -lfilabridge -lfilaflat -lutils -lgeometry -lsmol-v -lvkshaders -libl
 FRAMEWORKS=-framework Cocoa -framework Metal -framework CoreVideo
 CC=clang++
-ARCH ?= $(shell uname -m)

 main: main.o
-	$(CC) -Llib/$(ARCH)/ main.o $(FILAMENT_LIBS) $(FRAMEWORKS) -o main
+	$(CC) -Llib/x86_64/ main.o $(FILAMENT_LIBS) $(FRAMEWORKS) -o main

 main.o: main.cpp
 	$(CC) -Iinclude/ -std=c++17 -c main.cpp
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ used to change the run-time library version.

 ```make
 FILAMENT_LIBS=filament.lib backend.lib bluegl.lib bluevk.lib filabridge.lib filaflat.lib \
-              utils.lib geometry.lib smol-v.lib ibl.lib vkshaders.lib abseil.lib
+              utils.lib geometry.lib smol-v.lib ibl.lib vkshaders.lib
 CC=cl.exe

 main.exe: main.obj
@@ -180,11 +180,8 @@ if (FILAMENT_SUPPORTS_VULKAN)
            src/vulkan/VulkanAsyncHandles.h
            src/vulkan/VulkanBlitter.cpp
            src/vulkan/VulkanBlitter.h
+            src/vulkan/VulkanBuffer.cpp
            src/vulkan/VulkanBuffer.h
-            src/vulkan/VulkanBufferCache.h
-            src/vulkan/VulkanBufferCache.cpp
-            src/vulkan/VulkanBufferProxy.h
-            src/vulkan/VulkanBufferProxy.cpp
            src/vulkan/VulkanCommands.cpp
            src/vulkan/VulkanCommands.h
            src/vulkan/VulkanConstants.h
@@ -257,35 +254,16 @@ if (FILAMENT_SUPPORTS_WEBGPU)
    list(APPEND SRCS
            include/backend/platforms/WebGPUPlatform.h
            src/webgpu/platform/WebGPUPlatform.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUBufferBase.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUBufferBase.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUBufferObject.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUBufferObject.h
            src/webgpu/WebGPUConstants.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUDescriptorSet.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUDescriptorSet.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUDescriptorSetLayout.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUDescriptorSetLayout.h
            src/webgpu/WebGPUDriver.cpp
            src/webgpu/WebGPUDriver.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUIndexBuffer.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUIndexBuffer.h
+            src/webgpu/WebGPUHandles.cpp
+            src/webgpu/WebGPUHandles.h
            src/webgpu/WebGPUPipelineCreation.cpp
            src/webgpu/WebGPUPipelineCreation.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUProgram.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUProgram.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPURenderPrimitive.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPURenderTarget.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPURenderTarget.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUStrings.h
            src/webgpu/WebGPUSwapChain.cpp
            src/webgpu/WebGPUSwapChain.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUTexture.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUTexture.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUVertexBuffer.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUVertexBuffer.h
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUVertexBufferInfo.cpp
-            src/webgpu/WebGPUVertexBufferInfo.h
+            src/webgpu/WGPUProgram.cpp
    )
    if (WIN32)
        list(APPEND SRCS src/webgpu/platform/WebGPUPlatformWindows.cpp)
@@ -312,6 +290,12 @@ if (ANDROID)
    list(APPEND SRCS src/BackendUtilsAndroid.cpp)
 endif()

+# ==================================================================================================
+# Definitions
+# ==================================================================================================
+# "2" corresponds to SYSTRACE_TAG_FILEMENT (See: utils/Systrace.h)
+add_definitions(-DSYSTRACE_TAG=2 )
+
 # ==================================================================================================
 # Includes & target definition
 # ==================================================================================================
@@ -403,10 +387,6 @@ endif()
 target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC math)
 target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC utils)

-if (FILAMENT_USE_ABSEIL_LOGGING)
-    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE absl::log)
-endif()
-
 # Android, iOS, and WebGL do not use bluegl.
 if(FILAMENT_SUPPORTS_OPENGL AND NOT IOS AND NOT ANDROID AND NOT WEBGL)
    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE bluegl)
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 #include <array>
 #include <type_traits>
 #include <variant>
-#include <string_view>

 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
@@ -163,7 +162,7 @@ enum class TimerQueryResult : int8_t {
    AVAILABLE = 1,  // result is available
 };

-constexpr std::string_view to_string(Backend const backend) noexcept {
+static constexpr const char* backendToString(Backend backend) {
    switch (backend) {
        case Backend::NOOP:
            return "Noop";
@@ -175,10 +174,9 @@ constexpr std::string_view to_string(Backend const backend) noexcept {
            return "Metal";
        case Backend::WEBGPU:
            return "WebGPU";
-        case Backend::DEFAULT:
-            return "Default";
+        default:
+            return "Unknown";
    }
-    return "Unknown";
 }

 /**
@@ -195,7 +193,7 @@ enum class ShaderLanguage {
    WGSL = 5,
 };

-constexpr const char* shaderLanguageToString(ShaderLanguage shaderLanguage) noexcept {
+static constexpr const char* shaderLanguageToString(ShaderLanguage shaderLanguage) {
    switch (shaderLanguage) {
        case ShaderLanguage::ESSL1:
            return "ESSL 1.0";
@@ -210,7 +208,6 @@ constexpr const char* shaderLanguageToString(ShaderLanguage shaderLanguage) noex
        case ShaderLanguage::WGSL:
            return "WGSL";
    }
-    return "UNKNOWN";
 }

 enum class ShaderStage : uint8_t {
@@ -228,7 +225,7 @@ enum class ShaderStageFlags : uint8_t {
    ALL_SHADER_STAGE_FLAGS = VERTEX | FRAGMENT | COMPUTE
 };

-constexpr bool hasShaderType(ShaderStageFlags flags, ShaderStage type) noexcept {
+static inline constexpr bool hasShaderType(ShaderStageFlags flags, ShaderStage type) noexcept {
    switch (type) {
        case ShaderStage::VERTEX:
            return bool(uint8_t(flags) & uint8_t(ShaderStageFlags::VERTEX));
@@ -239,239 +236,14 @@ constexpr bool hasShaderType(ShaderStageFlags flags, ShaderStage type) noexcept
    }
 }

-enum class TextureType : uint8_t {
-    FLOAT,
-    INT,
-    UINT,
-    DEPTH,
-    STENCIL,
-    DEPTH_STENCIL
+enum class DescriptorType : uint8_t {
+    UNIFORM_BUFFER,
+    SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER,
+    SAMPLER,
+    INPUT_ATTACHMENT,
+    SAMPLER_EXTERNAL
 };

-constexpr std::string_view to_string(TextureType type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case TextureType::FLOAT:            return "FLOAT";
-        case TextureType::INT:              return "INT";
-        case TextureType::UINT:             return "UINT";
-        case TextureType::DEPTH:            return "DEPTH";
-        case TextureType::STENCIL:          return "STENCIL";
-        case TextureType::DEPTH_STENCIL:    return "DEPTH_STENCIL";
-    }
-    return "UNKNOWN";
-}
-
- enum class DescriptorType : uint8_t {
-     SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_INT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_UINT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH,
-
-     SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH,
-
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_INT,
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT,
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH,
-
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT,
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT,
-     SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH,
-
-     SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_3D_INT,
-     SAMPLER_3D_UINT,
-
-     SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT,
-
-     SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT,
-     SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT,
-
-     SAMPLER_EXTERNAL,
-     UNIFORM_BUFFER,
-     SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER,
-     INPUT_ATTACHMENT,
- };
-
-constexpr bool isDepthDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool isFloatDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool isIntDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool isUnsignedIntDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool is3dTypeDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool is2dTypeDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool is2dArrayTypeDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool isCubeTypeDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool isCubeArrayTypeDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr bool isMultiSampledTypeDescriptor(DescriptorType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
-            return true;
-        default: ;
-    }
-    return false;
-}
-
-constexpr std::string_view to_string(DescriptorType type) noexcept {
-    #define DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(TYPE)  case DescriptorType::TYPE: return #TYPE;
-    switch (type) {
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_3D_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_3D_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SAMPLER_EXTERNAL)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(UNIFORM_BUFFER)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER)
-        DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE(INPUT_ATTACHMENT)
-    }
-    return "UNKNOWN";
-    #undef DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_CASE
-}
-
 enum class DescriptorFlags : uint8_t {
    NONE = 0x00,
    DYNAMIC_OFFSET = 0x01
@@ -482,13 +254,6 @@ using descriptor_set_t = uint8_t;
 using descriptor_binding_t = uint8_t;

 struct DescriptorSetLayoutBinding {
-    static bool isSampler(DescriptorType type) noexcept {
-        return int(type) <= int(DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL);
-    }
-    static bool isBuffer(DescriptorType type) noexcept {
-        return type == DescriptorType::UNIFORM_BUFFER ||
-               type == DescriptorType::SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER;
-    }
    DescriptorType type;
    ShaderStageFlags stageFlags;
    descriptor_binding_t binding;
@@ -499,7 +264,7 @@ struct DescriptorSetLayoutBinding {
    //  no uninitialized padding bytes.
    //    uint8_t externalSamplerDataIndex = EXTERNAL_SAMPLER_DATA_INDEX_UNUSED;

-    friend bool operator==(DescriptorSetLayoutBinding const& lhs,
+    friend inline bool operator==(DescriptorSetLayoutBinding const& lhs,
            DescriptorSetLayoutBinding const& rhs) noexcept {
        return lhs.type == rhs.type &&
               lhs.flags == rhs.flags &&
@@ -532,7 +297,7 @@ enum class TargetBufferFlags : uint32_t {
    ALL = COLOR_ALL | DEPTH | STENCIL       //!< Color, depth and stencil buffer selected.
 };

-constexpr TargetBufferFlags getTargetBufferFlagsAt(size_t index) noexcept {
+inline constexpr TargetBufferFlags getTargetBufferFlagsAt(size_t index) noexcept {
    if (index == 0u) return TargetBufferFlags::COLOR0;
    if (index == 1u) return TargetBufferFlags::COLOR1;
    if (index == 2u) return TargetBufferFlags::COLOR2;
@@ -689,24 +454,6 @@ enum class SamplerType : uint8_t {
    SAMPLER_CUBEMAP_ARRAY,  //!< Cube map array texture (feature level 2)
 };

-constexpr std::string_view to_string(SamplerType const type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_2D:
-            return "SAMPLER_2D";
-        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY:
-            return "SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY";
-        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_CUBEMAP:
-            return "SAMPLER_CUBEMAP";
-        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL:
-            return "SAMPLER_EXTERNAL";
-        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_3D:
-            return "SAMPLER_3D";
-        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_CUBEMAP_ARRAY:
-            return "SAMPLER_CUBEMAP_ARRAY";
-    }
-    return "Unknown";
-}
-
 //! Subpass type
 enum class SubpassType : uint8_t {
    SUBPASS_INPUT
@@ -720,20 +467,6 @@ enum class SamplerFormat : uint8_t {
    SHADOW = 3      //!< shadow sampler (PCF)
 };

-constexpr std::string_view to_string(SamplerFormat const format) noexcept {
-    switch (format) {
-        case SamplerFormat::INT:
-            return "INT";
-        case SamplerFormat::UINT:
-            return "UINT";
-        case SamplerFormat::FLOAT:
-            return "FLOAT";
-        case SamplerFormat::SHADOW:
-            return "SHADOW";
-    }
-    return "Unknown";
-}
-
 /**
 * Supported element types
 */
@@ -773,15 +506,6 @@ enum class BufferObjectBinding : uint8_t {
    SHADER_STORAGE
 };

-constexpr std::string_view to_string(BufferObjectBinding type) noexcept {
-    switch (type) {
-        case BufferObjectBinding::VERTEX:           return "VERTEX";
-        case BufferObjectBinding::UNIFORM:          return "UNIFORM";
-        case BufferObjectBinding::SHADER_STORAGE:   return "SHADER_STORAGE";
-    }
-    return "UNKNOWN";
-}
-
 //! Face culling Mode
 enum class CullingMode : uint8_t {
    NONE,               //!< No culling, front and back faces are visible
@@ -1043,8 +767,6 @@ enum class TextureFormat : uint16_t {
    SRGB_ALPHA_BPTC_UNORM,  // BC7 sRGB
 };

-TextureType getTextureType(TextureFormat format) noexcept;
-
 //! Bitmask describing the intended Texture Usage
 enum class TextureUsage : uint16_t {
    NONE                = 0x0000,
@@ -1072,7 +794,7 @@ enum class TextureSwizzle : uint8_t {
 };

 //! returns whether this format a depth format
-constexpr bool isDepthFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isDepthFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    switch (format) {
        case TextureFormat::DEPTH32F:
        case TextureFormat::DEPTH24:
@@ -1085,7 +807,7 @@ constexpr bool isDepthFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    }
 }

-constexpr bool isStencilFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isStencilFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    switch (format) {
        case TextureFormat::STENCIL8:
        case TextureFormat::DEPTH24_STENCIL8:
@@ -1096,7 +818,7 @@ constexpr bool isStencilFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    }
 }

-constexpr bool isColorFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+inline constexpr bool isColorFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    switch (format) {
        // Standard color formats
        case TextureFormat::R8:
@@ -1123,7 +845,7 @@ constexpr bool isColorFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return false;
 }

-constexpr bool isUnsignedIntFormat(TextureFormat format) {
+static constexpr bool isUnsignedIntFormat(TextureFormat format) {
    switch (format) {
        case TextureFormat::R8UI:
        case TextureFormat::R16UI:
@@ -1144,7 +866,7 @@ constexpr bool isUnsignedIntFormat(TextureFormat format) {
    }
 }

-constexpr bool isSignedIntFormat(TextureFormat format) {
+static constexpr bool isSignedIntFormat(TextureFormat format) {
    switch (format) {
        case TextureFormat::R8I:
        case TextureFormat::R16I:
@@ -1166,35 +888,35 @@ constexpr bool isSignedIntFormat(TextureFormat format) {
 }

 //! returns whether this format is a compressed format
-constexpr bool isCompressedFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isCompressedFormat(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::EAC_R11;
 }

 //! returns whether this format is an ETC2 compressed format
-constexpr bool isETC2Compression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isETC2Compression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::EAC_R11 && format <= TextureFormat::ETC2_EAC_SRGBA8;
 }

 //! returns whether this format is an S3TC compressed format
-constexpr bool isS3TCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isS3TCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::DXT1_RGB && format <= TextureFormat::DXT5_SRGBA;
 }

-constexpr bool isS3TCSRGBCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isS3TCSRGBCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::DXT1_SRGB && format <= TextureFormat::DXT5_SRGBA;
 }

 //! returns whether this format is an RGTC compressed format
-constexpr bool isRGTCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isRGTCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::RED_RGTC1 && format <= TextureFormat::SIGNED_RED_GREEN_RGTC2;
 }

 //! returns whether this format is an BPTC compressed format
-constexpr bool isBPTCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isBPTCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::RGB_BPTC_SIGNED_FLOAT && format <= TextureFormat::SRGB_ALPHA_BPTC_UNORM;
 }

-constexpr bool isASTCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
+static constexpr bool isASTCCompression(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    return format >= TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_4x4 && format <= TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_12x12;
 }

@@ -1315,23 +1037,19 @@ struct SamplerParams {             // NOLINT
            assert_invariant(lhs.padding2 == 0);
            auto* pLhs = reinterpret_cast<uint32_t const*>(reinterpret_cast<char const*>(&lhs));
            auto* pRhs = reinterpret_cast<uint32_t const*>(reinterpret_cast<char const*>(&rhs));
-            return *pLhs < *pRhs;
+            return *pLhs == *pRhs;
        }
    };

-    bool isFiltered() const noexcept {
-        return filterMag != SamplerMagFilter::NEAREST || filterMin != SamplerMinFilter::NEAREST;
-    }
-
 private:
-    friend bool operator == (SamplerParams lhs, SamplerParams rhs) noexcept {
-        return EqualTo{}(lhs, rhs);
+    friend inline bool operator == (SamplerParams lhs, SamplerParams rhs) noexcept {
+        return SamplerParams::EqualTo{}(lhs, rhs);
    }
-    friend bool operator != (SamplerParams lhs, SamplerParams rhs) noexcept {
-        return  !EqualTo{}(lhs, rhs);
+    friend inline bool operator != (SamplerParams lhs, SamplerParams rhs) noexcept {
+        return  !SamplerParams::EqualTo{}(lhs, rhs);
    }
-    friend bool operator < (SamplerParams lhs, SamplerParams rhs) noexcept {
-        return LessThan{}(lhs, rhs);
+    friend inline bool operator < (SamplerParams lhs, SamplerParams rhs) noexcept {
+        return SamplerParams::LessThan{}(lhs, rhs);
    }
 };

@@ -1381,15 +1099,15 @@ struct SamplerYcbcrConversion {// NOLINT
    };

 private:
-    friend bool operator == (SamplerYcbcrConversion lhs, SamplerYcbcrConversion rhs)
+    friend inline bool operator == (SamplerYcbcrConversion lhs, SamplerYcbcrConversion rhs)
            noexcept {
        return SamplerYcbcrConversion::EqualTo{}(lhs, rhs);
    }
-    friend bool operator != (SamplerYcbcrConversion lhs, SamplerYcbcrConversion rhs)
+    friend inline bool operator != (SamplerYcbcrConversion lhs, SamplerYcbcrConversion rhs)
            noexcept {
        return  !SamplerYcbcrConversion::EqualTo{}(lhs, rhs);
    }
-    friend bool operator < (SamplerYcbcrConversion lhs, SamplerYcbcrConversion rhs)
+    friend inline bool operator < (SamplerYcbcrConversion lhs, SamplerYcbcrConversion rhs)
            noexcept {
        return SamplerYcbcrConversion::LessThan{}(lhs, rhs);
    }
@@ -204,15 +204,23 @@ public:
                }, new T(std::forward<T>(functor))
        };
    }
+
+    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
    /**
-     * Computes the size in bytes for a pixel of given dimensions and format
+     * Computes the size in bytes needed to fit an image of given dimensions and format
     *
     * @param format    Format of the image pixels
     * @param type      Type of the image pixels
-     * @return The size of the specified pixel in bytes
+     * @param stride    Stride of a row in pixels
+     * @param height    Height of the image in rows
+     * @param alignment Alignment in bytes of pixel rows
+     * @return The buffer size needed to fit this image in bytes
     */
+    static constexpr size_t computeDataSize(PixelDataFormat format, PixelDataType type,
+            size_t stride, size_t height, size_t alignment) noexcept {
+        assert_invariant(alignment);

-    static constexpr size_t computePixelSize(PixelDataFormat format, PixelDataType type) noexcept {
        if (type == PixelDataType::COMPRESSED) {
            return 0;
        }
@@ -234,7 +242,7 @@ public:
            case PixelDataFormat::RGB_INTEGER:
                n = 3;
                break;
-            case PixelDataFormat::UNUSED:// shouldn't happen (used to be rgbm)
+            case PixelDataFormat::UNUSED: // shouldn't happen (used to be rgbm)
            case PixelDataFormat::RGBA:
            case PixelDataFormat::RGBA_INTEGER:
                n = 4;
@@ -243,7 +251,7 @@ public:

        size_t bpp = n;
        switch (type) {
-            case PixelDataType::COMPRESSED:// Impossible -- to squash the IDE warnings
+            case PixelDataType::COMPRESSED: // Impossible -- to squash the IDE warnings
            case PixelDataType::UBYTE:
            case PixelDataType::BYTE:
                // nothing to do
@@ -274,35 +282,16 @@ public:
                bpp = 2;
                break;
        }
-        return bpp;
-    }

-    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-    /**
-     * Computes the size in bytes needed to fit an image of given dimensions and format
-     *
-     * @param format    Format of the image pixels
-     * @param type      Type of the image pixels
-     * @param stride    Stride of a row in pixels
-     * @param height    Height of the image in rows
-     * @param alignment Alignment in bytes of pixel rows
-     * @return The buffer size needed to fit this image in bytes
-     */
-    static constexpr size_t computeDataSize(PixelDataFormat format, PixelDataType type,
-            size_t stride, size_t height, size_t alignment) noexcept {
-        assert_invariant(alignment);
-
-        size_t bpp = computePixelSize(format, type);
        size_t const bpr = bpp * stride;
        size_t const bprAligned = (bpr + (alignment - 1)) & (~alignment + 1);
        return bprAligned * height;
    }

    //! left coordinate in pixels
-    uint32_t left = 0;
+    uint32_t left   = 0;
    //! top coordinate in pixels
-    uint32_t top = 0;
+    uint32_t top    = 0;
    union {
        struct {
            //! stride in pixels
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #include <utils/CString.h>
 #include <utils/FixedCapacityVector.h>
 #include <utils/Invocable.h>
-#include <utils/bitset.h>

 #include <backend/DriverEnums.h>

@@ -67,7 +66,6 @@ public:
    using DescriptorBindingsInfo = utils::FixedCapacityVector<Descriptor>;
    using DescriptorSetInfo = std::array<DescriptorBindingsInfo, MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SET_COUNT>;
    using SpecializationConstantsInfo = utils::FixedCapacityVector<SpecializationConstant>;
-    using MutableSpecConstantsInfo = utils::bitset8;
    using ShaderBlob = utils::FixedCapacityVector<uint8_t>;
    using ShaderSource = std::array<ShaderBlob, SHADER_TYPE_COUNT>;

@@ -104,8 +102,7 @@ public:
    Program& descriptorBindings(backend::descriptor_set_t set,
            DescriptorBindingsInfo descriptorBindings) noexcept;

-    Program& specializationConstants(SpecializationConstantsInfo specConstants,
-            uint32_t firstMutableId, MutableSpecConstantsInfo mutableSpecConstants) noexcept;
+    Program& specializationConstants(SpecializationConstantsInfo specConstants) noexcept;

    struct PushConstant {
        utils::CString name;
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ public:
     */
    virtual bool makeCurrent(ContextType type,
            SwapChain* UTILS_NONNULL drawSwapChain,
-            SwapChain* UTILS_NONNULL readSwapChain) = 0;
+            SwapChain* UTILS_NONNULL readSwapChain) noexcept = 0;

    /**
     * Called by the driver to make the OpenGL context active on the calling thread and bind
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ public:
            SwapChain* UTILS_NONNULL drawSwapChain,
            SwapChain* UTILS_NONNULL readSwapChain,
            utils::Invocable<void()> preContextChange,
-            utils::Invocable<void(size_t index)> postContextChange);
+            utils::Invocable<void(size_t index)> postContextChange) noexcept;

    /**
     * Called by the backend just before calling commit()
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ protected:
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(void* nativewindow, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    void destroySwapChain(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
-    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;
    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
    ExternalTexture* createExternalImageTexture() noexcept override;
    void destroyExternalImageTexture(ExternalTexture* texture) noexcept override;
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public:
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(void* nativewindow, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    void destroySwapChain(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
-    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;
    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;

    ExternalTexture* createExternalImageTexture() noexcept override;
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ protected:

    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type,
            SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-            SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+            SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;

    void makeCurrent(SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain,
            utils::Invocable<void()> preContextChange,
-            utils::Invocable<void(size_t index)> postContextChange) override;
+            utils::Invocable<void(size_t index)> postContextChange) noexcept override;

    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ protected:
    bool setExternalImage(ExternalImageHandleRef externalImage, ExternalTexture* texture) noexcept override;

    /**
-     * Logs glGetError() to LOG(ERROR)
+     * Logs glGetError() to slog.e
     * @param name a string giving some context on the error. Typically __func__.
     */
    static void logEglError(const char* name) noexcept;
@@ -148,12 +148,12 @@ protected:
    EGLContext getContextForType(ContextType type) const noexcept;

    // makes the draw and read surface current without changing the current context
-    EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLSurface drawSurface, EGLSurface readSurface) {
+    EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLSurface drawSurface, EGLSurface readSurface) noexcept {
        return egl.makeCurrent(drawSurface, readSurface);
    }

    // makes context current and set draw and read surfaces to EGL_NO_SURFACE
-    EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLContext context) {
+    EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLContext context) noexcept {
        return egl.makeCurrent(context, mEGLDummySurface, mEGLDummySurface);
    }

@@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ private:
    public:
        explicit EGL(EGLDisplay& dpy) : mEGLDisplay(dpy) {}
        EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLContext context,
-                EGLSurface drawSurface, EGLSurface readSurface);
+                EGLSurface drawSurface, EGLSurface readSurface) noexcept;

-        EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLSurface drawSurface, EGLSurface readSurface) {
+        EGLBoolean makeCurrent(EGLSurface drawSurface, EGLSurface readSurface) noexcept {
            return makeCurrent(mCurrentContext, drawSurface, readSurface);
        }
    } egl{ mEGLDisplay };
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ protected:
 protected:
    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type,
            SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-            SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+            SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;

 private:
    struct InitializeJvmForPerformanceManagerIfNeeded {
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ protected:
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(void* nativewindow, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    void destroySwapChain(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
-    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;
    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;

 private:
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ protected:
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    void destroySwapChain(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-            SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+            SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;
    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;

 private:
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ protected:
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(void* nativewindow, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    void destroySwapChain(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
-    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;
    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;

 protected:
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ protected:
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(void* nativewindow, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    SwapChain* createSwapChain(uint32_t width, uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) noexcept override;
    void destroySwapChain(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
-    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) override;
+    bool makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept override;
    void commit(SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept override;
 };

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 #include <webgpu/webgpu_cpp.h>

 #include <cstdint>
-#include <vector>

 namespace filament::backend {

@@ -57,10 +56,6 @@ protected:
            const Platform::DriverConfig& driverConfig) noexcept override;

 private:
-    // returns adapter request option variations applicable for the particular
-    // platform
-    [[nodiscard]] static std::vector<wgpu::RequestAdapterOptions> getAdapterOptions();
-
    // we may consider having the driver own this in the future
    wgpu::Instance mInstance;
 };
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ public:
    Range getBuffer() noexcept;

 private:
-    void* alloc(size_t size);
+    void* alloc(size_t size) noexcept;
    void dealloc() noexcept;

    // pointer to the beginning of the circular buffer (constant)
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public:

    // all commands buffers (Slices) written to this point are returned by waitForCommand(). This
    // call blocks until the CircularBuffer has at least mRequiredSize bytes available.
-    void flush();
+    void flush() noexcept;

    // returns from waitForCommands() immediately.
    void requestExit();
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #define FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_NONE         0x0
 // Command debugging enabled. No logging by default.
 #define FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_ENABLE       0x1
-// Command debugging enabled. Every command logged to DLOG(INFO)
+// Command debugging enabled. Every command logged to slog.d
 #define FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_LOG          0x2
 // Command debugging enabled. Every command logged to systrace
 #define FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_SYSTRACE     0x4
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ namespace filament {
 class VirtualMachineEnv {
 public:
    // must be called before VirtualMachineEnv::get() from a thread that is attached to the JavaVM
-    static jint JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm);
+    static jint JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm) noexcept;

    // must be called on backend thread
    static VirtualMachineEnv& get() noexcept;

    // can be called from any thread that already has a JniEnv
-    static JNIEnv* getThreadEnvironment();
+    static JNIEnv* getThreadEnvironment() noexcept;

    // must be called from the backend thread
    JNIEnv* getEnvironment() noexcept {
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public:
 private:
    explicit VirtualMachineEnv(JavaVM* vm) noexcept;
    ~VirtualMachineEnv() noexcept;
-    JNIEnv* getEnvironmentSlow();
+    JNIEnv* getEnvironmentSlow() noexcept;

    static utils::Mutex sLock;
    static JavaVM* sVirtualMachine;
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@

 #include "DataReshaper.h"

-#include <backend/DriverEnums.h>
-
 #include <utils/CString.h>

 #include <string_view>
@@ -225,143 +223,6 @@ size_t getFormatSize(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    }
 }

-TextureType getTextureType(TextureFormat const format) noexcept {
-    switch (format) {
-        case TextureFormat::UNUSED:
-            // should not happen
-            return TextureType::FLOAT;
-
-        case TextureFormat::R8:
-        case TextureFormat::R16F:
-        case TextureFormat::RG8:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB565:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB5_A1:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA4:
-        case TextureFormat::R32F:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB8:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8:
-        case TextureFormat::RG16F:
-        case TextureFormat::R11F_G11F_B10F:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB9_E5:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA8:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_A8:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB10_A2:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB16F:
-        case TextureFormat::RG32F:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA16F:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB32F:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA32F:
-            return TextureType::FLOAT;
-
-        case TextureFormat::R8_SNORM:
-        case TextureFormat::RG8_SNORM:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB8_SNORM:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA8_SNORM:
-            // SNORM are treated as float
-            return TextureType::FLOAT;
-
-        case TextureFormat::R8UI:
-        case TextureFormat::R16UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RG8UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB8UI:
-        case TextureFormat::R32UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RG16UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA8UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB16UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RG32UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA16UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB32UI:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA32UI:
-            return TextureType::UINT;
-
-        case TextureFormat::R8I:
-        case TextureFormat::R16I:
-        case TextureFormat::RG8I:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB8I:
-        case TextureFormat::R32I:
-        case TextureFormat::RG16I:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA8I:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB16I:
-        case TextureFormat::RG32I:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA16I:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB32I:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA32I:
-            return TextureType::INT;
-
-        case TextureFormat::DEPTH16:
-        case TextureFormat::DEPTH24:
-        case TextureFormat::DEPTH32F:
-            return TextureType::DEPTH;
-
-        case TextureFormat::STENCIL8:
-            return TextureType::STENCIL;
-
-        case TextureFormat::DEPTH24_STENCIL8:
-        case TextureFormat::DEPTH32F_STENCIL8:
-            return TextureType::DEPTH_STENCIL;
-
-        // Compressed formats ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-        case TextureFormat::EAC_RG11:
-        case TextureFormat::EAC_RG11_SIGNED:
-        case TextureFormat::ETC2_EAC_RGBA8:
-        case TextureFormat::ETC2_EAC_SRGBA8:
-        case TextureFormat::EAC_R11:
-        case TextureFormat::EAC_R11_SIGNED:
-        case TextureFormat::ETC2_RGB8:
-        case TextureFormat::ETC2_SRGB8:
-        case TextureFormat::ETC2_RGB8_A1:
-        case TextureFormat::ETC2_SRGB8_A1:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT1_RGB:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT1_RGBA:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT1_SRGB:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT1_SRGBA:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT3_RGBA:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT3_SRGBA:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT5_RGBA:
-        case TextureFormat::DXT5_SRGBA:
-        case TextureFormat::RED_RGTC1:
-        case TextureFormat::SIGNED_RED_RGTC1:
-        case TextureFormat::RED_GREEN_RGTC2:
-        case TextureFormat::SIGNED_RED_GREEN_RGTC2:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB_BPTC_SIGNED_FLOAT:
-        case TextureFormat::RGB_BPTC_UNSIGNED_FLOAT:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_BPTC_UNORM:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB_ALPHA_BPTC_UNORM:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_4x4:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_5x4:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_5x5:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_6x5:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_6x6:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_8x5:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_8x6:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_8x8:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_10x5:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_10x6:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_10x8:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_10x10:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_12x10:
-        case TextureFormat::RGBA_ASTC_12x12:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_4x4:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x4:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x5:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x5:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x6:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_8x5:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_8x6:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_8x8:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x5:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x6:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x8:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x10:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_12x10:
-        case TextureFormat::SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_12x12:
-            return TextureType::FLOAT;
-    }
-
-    return TextureType::FLOAT;
-}
-
 size_t getFormatComponentCount(TextureFormat format) noexcept {
    switch (format) {
        case TextureFormat::R8:
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

 #include "private/backend/CircularBuffer.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/architecture.h>
 #include <utils/ashmem.h>
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ CircularBuffer::~CircularBuffer() noexcept {
 // to each others and a special case in circularize()

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-void* CircularBuffer::alloc(size_t size) {
+void* CircularBuffer::alloc(size_t size) noexcept {
 #if HAS_MMAP
    void* data = nullptr;
    void* vaddr = MAP_FAILED;
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ void* CircularBuffer::alloc(size_t size) {
                "couldn't allocate " << (size * 2 / 1024) <<
                " KiB of virtual address space for the command buffer";

-        LOG(WARNING) << "Using 'soft' CircularBuffer (" << (size * 2 / 1024) << " KiB)";
+        slog.w << "Using 'soft' CircularBuffer (" << (size * 2 / 1024) << " KiB)" << io::endl;

        // guard page at the end
        void* guard = (void*)(uintptr_t(data) + size * 2);
@@ -18,14 +18,13 @@
 #include "private/backend/CircularBuffer.h"
 #include "private/backend/CommandStream.h"

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
-#include <utils/Mutex.h>
-#include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
-#include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
+#include <utils/Mutex.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
+#include <utils/Panic.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>
+#include <utils/debug.h>

 #include <algorithm>
 #include <mutex>
@@ -53,18 +52,18 @@ CommandBufferQueue::~CommandBufferQueue() {
 }

 void CommandBufferQueue::requestExit() {
-    std::lock_guard const lock(mLock);
+    std::lock_guard<utils::Mutex> const lock(mLock);
    mExitRequested = EXIT_REQUESTED;
    mCondition.notify_one();
 }

 bool CommandBufferQueue::isPaused() const noexcept {
-    std::lock_guard const lock(mLock);
+    std::lock_guard<utils::Mutex> const lock(mLock);
    return mPaused;
 }

 void CommandBufferQueue::setPaused(bool paused) {
-    std::lock_guard const lock(mLock);
+    std::lock_guard<utils::Mutex> const lock(mLock);
    if (paused) {
        mPaused = true;
    } else {
@@ -74,13 +73,13 @@ void CommandBufferQueue::setPaused(bool paused) {
 }

 bool CommandBufferQueue::isExitRequested() const {
-    std::lock_guard const lock(mLock);
-    return bool(mExitRequested);
+    std::lock_guard<utils::Mutex> const lock(mLock);
+    return (bool)mExitRequested;
 }


-void CommandBufferQueue::flush() {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+void CommandBufferQueue::flush() noexcept {
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    CircularBuffer& circularBuffer = mCircularBuffer;
    if (circularBuffer.empty()) {
@@ -103,7 +102,7 @@ void CommandBufferQueue::flush() {
            static_cast<char const*>(begin), static_cast<char const*>(end));


-    std::unique_lock lock(mLock);
+    std::unique_lock<utils::Mutex> lock(mLock);

    // circular buffer is too small, we corrupted the stream
    FILAMENT_CHECK_POSTCONDITION(used <= mFreeSpace) <<
@@ -121,15 +120,16 @@ void CommandBufferQueue::flush() {

 #ifndef NDEBUG
        size_t const totalUsed = circularBuffer.size() - mFreeSpace;
-        DLOG(INFO) << "CommandStream used too much space (will block): "
-                   << "needed space " << requiredSize << " out of " << mFreeSpace
-                   << ", totalUsed=" << totalUsed << ", current=" << used
-                   << ", queue size=" << mCommandBuffersToExecute.size() << " buffers";
+        slog.d << "CommandStream used too much space (will block): "
+                << "needed space " << requiredSize << " out of " << mFreeSpace
+                << ", totalUsed=" << totalUsed << ", current=" << used
+                << ", queue size=" << mCommandBuffersToExecute.size() << " buffers"
+                << io::endl;

        mHighWatermark = std::max(mHighWatermark, totalUsed);
 #endif

-        FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "waiting: CircularBuffer::flush()");
+        SYSTRACE_NAME("waiting: CircularBuffer::flush()");

        FILAMENT_CHECK_POSTCONDITION(!mPaused) <<
                "CommandStream is full, but since the rendering thread is paused, "
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ std::vector<CommandBufferQueue::Range> CommandBufferQueue::waitForCommands() con
    if (!UTILS_HAS_THREADING) {
        return std::move(mCommandBuffersToExecute);
    }
-    std::unique_lock lock(mLock);
+    std::unique_lock<utils::Mutex> lock(mLock);
    while ((mCommandBuffersToExecute.empty() || mPaused) && !mExitRequested) {
        mCondition.wait(lock);
    }
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ std::vector<CommandBufferQueue::Range> CommandBufferQueue::waitForCommands() con
 void CommandBufferQueue::releaseBuffer(CommandBufferQueue::Range const& buffer) {
    size_t const used = std::distance(
            static_cast<char const*>(buffer.begin), static_cast<char const*>(buffer.end));
-    std::lock_guard const lock(mLock);
+    std::lock_guard<utils::Mutex> const lock(mLock);
    mFreeSpace += used;
    mCondition.notify_one();
 }
@@ -16,19 +16,15 @@

 #include "private/backend/CommandStream.h"

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
 #if DEBUG_COMMAND_STREAM
 #include <utils/CallStack.h>
 #endif

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
-#include <utils/Profiler.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
-#include <utils/sstream.h>
+#include <utils/Profiler.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <cstddef>
 #include <functional>
@@ -83,13 +79,12 @@ CommandStream::CommandStream(Driver& driver, CircularBuffer& buffer) noexcept
 }

 void CommandStream::execute(void* buffer) {
-    // NOTE: we can't use FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL() or similar here because, execute() below, also
+    // NOTE: we can't use SYSTRACE_CALL() or similar here because, execute() below, also
    // uses systrace BEGIN/END and the END is not guaranteed to be happening in this scope.

    Profiler profiler;

-
-    if constexpr (FILAMENT_TRACING_ENABLED) {
+    if (SYSTRACE_TAG) {
        if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(mUsePerformanceCounter)) {
            // we want to remove all this when tracing is completely disabled
            profiler.resetEvents(Profiler::EV_CPU_CYCLES  | Profiler::EV_BPU_MISSES);
@@ -105,17 +100,17 @@ void CommandStream::execute(void* buffer) {
        }
    });

-    if constexpr (FILAMENT_TRACING_ENABLED) {
+    if (SYSTRACE_TAG) {
        if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(mUsePerformanceCounter)) {
            // we want to remove all this when tracing is completely disabled
            profiler.stop();
            UTILS_UNUSED Profiler::Counters const counters = profiler.readCounters();
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "GLThread (I)", counters.getInstructions());
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "GLThread (C)", counters.getCpuCycles());
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "GLThread (CPI x10)", counters.getCPI() * 10);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "GLThread (BPU miss)", counters.getBranchMisses());
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "GLThread (I / BPU miss)",
+            SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+            SYSTRACE_VALUE32("GLThread (I)", counters.getInstructions());
+            SYSTRACE_VALUE32("GLThread (C)", counters.getCpuCycles());
+            SYSTRACE_VALUE32("GLThread (CPI x10)", counters.getCPI() * 10);
+            SYSTRACE_VALUE32("GLThread (BPU miss)", counters.getBranchMisses());
+            SYSTRACE_VALUE32("GLThread (I / BPU miss)",
                    counters.getInstructions() / counters.getBranchMisses());
        }
    }
@@ -132,10 +127,9 @@ void CommandType<void (Driver::*)(ARGS...)>::Command<METHOD>::log(std::index_seq
 #if DEBUG_COMMAND_STREAM
    static_assert(UTILS_HAS_RTTI, "DEBUG_COMMAND_STREAM can only be used with RTTI");
    std::string command = utils::CallStack::demangleTypeName(typeid(Command).name()).c_str();
-    DLOG(INFO) << extractMethodName(command) << " : size=" << sizeof(Command);
-    utils::io::sstream parameterPack;
-    printParameterPack(parameterPack, std::get<I>(mArgs)...);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "\t" << parameterPack.c_str();
+    slog.d << extractMethodName(command) << " : size=" << sizeof(Command) << "\n\t";
+    printParameterPack(slog.d, std::get<I>(mArgs)...);
+    slog.d << io::endl;
 #endif
 }

@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@
 #include "private/backend/Driver.h"
 #include "private/backend/CommandStream.h"

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <utility>

@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@
 #if DEBUG_LEVEL == DEBUG_LEVEL_NONE
 #   define SYSTRACE()
 #elif DEBUG_LEVEL == DEBUG_LEVEL_SYSTRACE
-#   define SYSTRACE() FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+#   define SYSTRACE() SYSTRACE_CALL();
 #else
 #   error "invalid debug level"
 #endif
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

 #include "CompilerThreadPool.h"

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <memory>

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ void CompilerThreadPool::init(uint32_t threadCount,

    for (size_t i = 0; i < threadCount; i++) {
        mCompilerThreads.emplace_back([this, setup, cleanup]() {
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+            SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();

            (*setup)();

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ void CompilerThreadPool::init(uint32_t threadCount,
                                    [](auto&& q) { return q.empty(); }));
                });

-                FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "CompilerThreadPool Jobs",
+                SYSTRACE_VALUE32("CompilerThreadPool Jobs",
                        mQueues[0].size() + mQueues[1].size());

                if (UTILS_LIKELY(!mExitRequested)) {
@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@
 #include <backend/BufferDescriptor.h>
 #include <backend/DriverEnums.h>

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <math/half.h>
 #include <math/vec2.h>
@@ -149,34 +148,33 @@ void DriverBase::scheduleRelease(AcquiredImage const& image) noexcept {
 void DriverBase::debugCommandBegin(CommandStream* cmds, bool synchronous, const char* methodName) noexcept {
    if constexpr (bool(FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS > FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_NONE)) {
        if constexpr (bool(FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS & FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_LOG)) {
-            DLOG(INFO) << methodName;
+            utils::slog.d << methodName << utils::io::endl;
        }
        if constexpr (bool(FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS & FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_SYSTRACE)) {
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_BEGIN(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, methodName);
+            SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+            SYSTRACE_NAME_BEGIN(methodName);

            if (!synchronous) {
                cmds->queueCommand([=]() {
-                    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-                    FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_BEGIN(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, methodName);
+                    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+                    SYSTRACE_NAME_BEGIN(methodName);
                });
            }
        }
    }
 }

-void DriverBase::debugCommandEnd(CommandStream* cmds, bool synchronous,
-        const char* methodName) noexcept {
+void DriverBase::debugCommandEnd(CommandStream* cmds, bool synchronous, const char* methodName) noexcept {
    if constexpr (bool(FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS > FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_NONE)) {
        if constexpr (bool(FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS & FILAMENT_DEBUG_COMMANDS_SYSTRACE)) {
            if (!synchronous) {
                cmds->queueCommand([]() {
-                    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-                    FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_END(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+                    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+                    SYSTRACE_NAME_END();
                });
            }
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_END(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+            SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+            SYSTRACE_NAME_END();
        }
    }
 }
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

 #include <utils/Allocator.h>
 #include <utils/CString.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ HandleAllocator<P0, P1, P2>::Allocator::Allocator(AreaPolicy::HeapArea const& ar
    size_t const maxHeapSize = std::min(area.size(), HANDLE_INDEX_MASK * getAlignment());

    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(maxHeapSize != area.size())) {
-        LOG(WARNING) << "HandleAllocator heap size reduced to " << maxHeapSize << " from "
-                     << area.size();
+        slog.w << "HandleAllocator heap size reduced to "
+               << maxHeapSize << " from " << area.size() << io::endl;
    }

    // make sure we start with a clean arena. This is needed to ensure that all blocks start
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@

 #include <private/backend/PlatformFactory.h>

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>

 // We need to keep this up top for the linux (X11) name collisions.
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ namespace filament::backend {
 // responsible for destroying it. Initialization of the backend API is deferred until
 // createDriver(). The passed-in backend hint is replaced with the resolved backend.
 Platform* PlatformFactory::create(Backend* backend) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();
    assert_invariant(backend);

 #if defined(__ANDROID__)
@@ -80,18 +80,8 @@ Program& Program::attributes(AttributesInfo attributes) noexcept {
    return *this;
 }

-Program& Program::specializationConstants(SpecializationConstantsInfo specConstants,
-        uint32_t firstMutableId, MutableSpecConstantsInfo mutableSpecConstants) noexcept {
-    // String the two lists together.
+Program& Program::specializationConstants(SpecializationConstantsInfo specConstants) noexcept {
    mSpecializationConstants = std::move(specConstants);
-    uint32_t firstMutableIndex = specConstants.size();
-    mSpecializationConstants.reserve(specConstants.size() + mutableSpecConstants.size());
-    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < mutableSpecConstants.size(); i++) {
-        mSpecializationConstants[i + firstMutableIndex] = SpecializationConstant {
-                .id = i + firstMutableId,
-                .value = mutableSpecConstants[i],
-        };
-    }
    return *this;
 }

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #ifndef TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_SYSTRACEPROFILE_H
 #define TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_SYSTRACEPROFILE_H

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #define PROFILE_SCOPE(marker)       SYSTRACE_NAME(marker)

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ JavaVM* VirtualMachineEnv::getVirtualMachine() {
 */
 UTILS_PUBLIC
 UTILS_NOINLINE
-jint VirtualMachineEnv::JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm) {
+jint VirtualMachineEnv::JNI_OnLoad(JavaVM* vm) noexcept {
    std::lock_guard const lock(sLock);
    if (sVirtualMachine) {
        // It doesn't make sense for JNI_OnLoad() to be called more than once
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ VirtualMachineEnv& VirtualMachineEnv::get() noexcept {
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-JNIEnv* VirtualMachineEnv::getThreadEnvironment() {
+JNIEnv* VirtualMachineEnv::getThreadEnvironment() noexcept {
    JavaVM* const vm = getVirtualMachine();
    JNIEnv* env = nullptr;
    jint const result = vm->GetEnv(reinterpret_cast<void**>(&env), JNI_VERSION_1_6);
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ VirtualMachineEnv::~VirtualMachineEnv() noexcept {
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-JNIEnv* VirtualMachineEnv::getEnvironmentSlow() {
+JNIEnv* VirtualMachineEnv::getEnvironmentSlow() noexcept {
    FILAMENT_CHECK_PRECONDITION(mVirtualMachine)
            << "JNI_OnLoad() has not been called";

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 #include "MetalContext.h"
 #include "MetalUtils.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>

 namespace filament::backend {

@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ id<MTLFunction> MetalBlitter::compileFragmentFunction(BlitFunctionKey key) const
    if (!library || !function) {
        if (error) {
            auto description = [error.localizedDescription cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-            LOG(ERROR) << description;
+            utils::slog.e << description << utils::io::endl;
        }
    }
    FILAMENT_CHECK_POSTCONDITION(library && function)
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ id<MTLFunction> MetalBlitter::getBlitVertexFunction() {
    if (!library || !function) {
        if (error) {
            auto description = [error.localizedDescription cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-            LOG(ERROR) << description;
+            utils::slog.e << description << utils::io::endl;
        }
    }
    FILAMENT_CHECK_POSTCONDITION(library && function)
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@

 #include "MetalContext.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/trap.h>

 #include <thread>
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ void MetalBufferPool::releaseBuffer(MetalBufferPoolEntry const *stage) noexcept

    auto iter = mUsedStages.find(stage);
    if (iter == mUsedStages.end()) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Unknown Metal buffer: " << stage->capacity << " bytes";
+        utils::slog.e << "Unknown Metal buffer: " << stage->capacity << " bytes"
+                << utils::io::endl;
        return;
    }
    stage->lastAccessed = mCurrentFrame;
@@ -18,9 +18,8 @@

 #include "MetalHandles.h"

-#include <utils/FixedCapacityVector.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/FixedCapacityVector.h>

 #include <utility>

@@ -113,8 +112,8 @@ id<MTLCommandBuffer> getPendingCommandBuffer(MetalContext* context) {
        auto errorCode = (MTLCommandBufferError)buffer.error.code;
        if (@available(macOS 11.0, *)) {
            if (errorCode == MTLCommandBufferErrorMemoryless) {
-                LOG(WARNING) << "Metal: memoryless geometry limit reached. Continuing with private "
-                                "storage mode.";
+                utils::slog.w << "Metal: memoryless geometry limit reached. "
+                        "Continuing with private storage mode." << utils::io::endl;
                context->memorylessLimitsReached = true;
            }
        }
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@
 #include <Metal/Metal.h>
 #include <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

-#include <utils/Invocable.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/sstream.h>
+#include <utils/Invocable.h>

 #include <algorithm>

@@ -78,18 +78,20 @@ Driver* MetalDriverFactory::create(PlatformMetal* const platform, const Platform
    //    MetalVertexBufferInfo        : 552       moderate
    // -- less than or equal to 552 bytes

-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalSwapChain: " << sizeof(MetalSwapChain);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalBufferObject: " << sizeof(MetalBufferObject);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalVertexBuffer: " << sizeof(MetalVertexBuffer);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalVertexBufferInfo: " << sizeof(MetalVertexBufferInfo);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalIndexBuffer: " << sizeof(MetalIndexBuffer);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalRenderPrimitive: " << sizeof(MetalRenderPrimitive);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalTexture: " << sizeof(MetalTexture);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalTimerQuery: " << sizeof(MetalTimerQuery);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "HwStream: " << sizeof(HwStream);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalRenderTarget: " << sizeof(MetalRenderTarget);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalFence: " << sizeof(MetalFence);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "MetalProgram: " << sizeof(MetalProgram);
+    utils::slog.d
+           << "\nMetalSwapChain: " << sizeof(MetalSwapChain)
+           << "\nMetalBufferObject: " << sizeof(MetalBufferObject)
+           << "\nMetalVertexBuffer: " << sizeof(MetalVertexBuffer)
+           << "\nMetalVertexBufferInfo: " << sizeof(MetalVertexBufferInfo)
+           << "\nMetalIndexBuffer: " << sizeof(MetalIndexBuffer)
+           << "\nMetalRenderPrimitive: " << sizeof(MetalRenderPrimitive)
+           << "\nMetalTexture: " << sizeof(MetalTexture)
+           << "\nMetalTimerQuery: " << sizeof(MetalTimerQuery)
+           << "\nHwStream: " << sizeof(HwStream)
+           << "\nMetalRenderTarget: " << sizeof(MetalRenderTarget)
+           << "\nMetalFence: " << sizeof(MetalFence)
+           << "\nMetalProgram: " << sizeof(MetalProgram)
+           << utils::io::endl;
 #endif
    return MetalDriver::create(platform, driverConfig);
 }
@@ -133,18 +135,19 @@ MetalDriver::MetalDriver(

    initializeSupportedGpuFamilies(mContext);

-    LOG(INFO) << "Supported GPU families: ";
+    utils::slog.v << "Supported GPU families: " << utils::io::endl;
    if (mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.common > 0) {
-        LOG(INFO) << "  MTLGPUFamilyCommon" << (int) mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.common;
+        utils::slog.v << "  MTLGPUFamilyCommon" << (int) mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.common << utils::io::endl;
    }
    if (mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.apple > 0) {
-        LOG(INFO) << "  MTLGPUFamilyApple" << (int) mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.apple;
+        utils::slog.v << "  MTLGPUFamilyApple" << (int) mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.apple << utils::io::endl;
    }
    if (mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.mac > 0) {
-        LOG(INFO) << "  MTLGPUFamilyMac" << (int) mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.mac;
+        utils::slog.v << "  MTLGPUFamilyMac" << (int) mContext->highestSupportedGpuFamily.mac << utils::io::endl;
    }
-    LOG(INFO) << "Features:";
-    LOG(INFO) << "  readWriteTextureSupport: " << (bool) mContext->device.readWriteTextureSupport;
+    utils::slog.v << "Features:" << utils::io::endl;
+    utils::slog.v << "  readWriteTextureSupport: " <<
+            (bool) mContext->device.readWriteTextureSupport << utils::io::endl;

    // In order to support texture swizzling, the GPU needs to support it and the system be running
    // iOS 13+.
@@ -585,7 +588,7 @@ void MetalDriver::createProgramR(Handle<HwProgram> rph, Program&& program) {
 #if FILAMENT_METAL_DEBUG_LOG
    auto handleId = rph.getId();
    DEBUG_LOG("createProgramR(rph = %d, program = ", handleId);
-    DLOG(INFO) << program;
+    utils::slog.d << program << utils::io::endl;
 #endif
    construct_handle<MetalProgram>(rph, *mContext, std::move(program));
 }
@@ -669,8 +672,22 @@ void MetalDriver::createTimerQueryR(Handle<HwTimerQuery> tqh, int) {
    // nothing to do, timer query was constructed in createTimerQueryS
 }

-UTILS_UNUSED
-static const char* toString(ShaderStageFlags flags) {
+const char* toString(DescriptorType type) {
+    switch (type) {
+        case DescriptorType::UNIFORM_BUFFER:
+            return "UNIFORM_BUFFER";
+        case DescriptorType::SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER:
+            return "SHADER_STORAGE_BUFFER";
+        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER:
+            return "SAMPLER";
+        case DescriptorType::INPUT_ATTACHMENT:
+            return "INPUT_ATTACHMENT";
+        case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL:
+            return "SAMPLER_EXTERNAL";
+    }
+}
+
+const char* toString(ShaderStageFlags flags) {
    std::vector<const char*> stages;
    if (any(flags & ShaderStageFlags::VERTEX)) {
        stages.push_back("VERTEX");
@@ -2074,7 +2091,7 @@ void MetalDriver::dispatchCompute(Handle<HwProgram> program, math::uint3 workGro
                                                            error:&error];
    if (error) {
        auto description = [error.localizedDescription cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-        LOG(ERROR) << description;
+        utils::slog.e << description << utils::io::endl;
    }
    assert_invariant(!error);

@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@
 #include "MetalEnums.h"
 #include "MetalUtils.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/trap.h>

 #define NSERROR_CHECK(message)                                                                     \
    if (error) {                                                                                   \
        auto description = [error.localizedDescription cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; \
-        LOG(ERROR) << description;                                                                 \
+        utils::slog.e << description << utils::io::endl;                                           \
    }                                                                                              \
    FILAMENT_CHECK_POSTCONDITION(error == nil) << message;

@@ -27,11 +27,10 @@

 #include "private/backend/BackendUtils.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
-#include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
-#include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/trap.h>
+#include <utils/debug.h>

 #include <math/scalar.h>

@@ -116,14 +115,14 @@ MetalSwapChain::MetalSwapChain(
      type(SwapChainType::CAMETALLAYER) {

    if (!(flags & SwapChain::CONFIG_TRANSPARENT) && !nativeWindow.opaque) {
-        LOG(WARNING) << "Warning: Filament SwapChain has no CONFIG_TRANSPARENT flag, but the "
-                        "CAMetaLayer("
-                     << (__bridge void*) nativeWindow << ") has .opaque set to NO.";
+        utils::slog.w << "Warning: Filament SwapChain has no CONFIG_TRANSPARENT flag, "
+                         "but the CAMetaLayer(" << (__bridge void*) nativeWindow << ")"
+                         " has .opaque set to NO." << utils::io::endl;
    }
    if ((flags & SwapChain::CONFIG_TRANSPARENT) && nativeWindow.opaque) {
-        LOG(WARNING) << "Warning: Filament SwapChain has the CONFIG_TRANSPARENT flag, but the "
-                        "CAMetaLayer("
-                     << (__bridge void*) nativeWindow << ") has .opaque set to YES.";
+        utils::slog.w << "Warning: Filament SwapChain has the CONFIG_TRANSPARENT flag, "
+                         "but the CAMetaLayer(" << (__bridge void*) nativeWindow << ")"
+                         " has .opaque set to YES." << utils::io::endl;
    }

    // Needed so we can use the SwapChain as a blit source.
@@ -1357,31 +1356,7 @@ id<MTLArgumentEncoder> MetalDescriptorSetLayout::getArgumentEncoderSlow(id<MTLDe
                [arguments addObject:bufferArgument];
                break;
            }
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
+            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER:
            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL: {
                MTLArgumentDescriptor* textureArgument = [MTLArgumentDescriptor argumentDescriptor];
                textureArgument.index = binding.binding * 2;
@@ -1503,31 +1478,7 @@ id<MTLBuffer> MetalDescriptorSet::finalizeAndGetBuffer(MetalDriver* driver, Shad
                           atIndex:binding.binding * 2];
                break;
            }
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
+            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER:
            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL: {
                auto found = textures.find(binding.binding);
                if (found == textures.end()) {
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 #include <backend/Program.h>

 #include <utils/JobSystem.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/Mutex.h>

 #include <chrono>
@@ -148,7 +147,7 @@ bool MetalShaderCompiler::isParallelShaderCompileSupported() const noexcept {
            if (error) {
                auto description =
                        [error.localizedDescription cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-                LOG(WARNING) << description;
+                utils::slog.w << description << utils::io::endl;
                errorMessage = error.localizedDescription;
            }
            PANIC_LOG("Failed to compile Metal program.");
@@ -179,7 +178,7 @@ bool MetalShaderCompiler::isParallelShaderCompileSupported() const noexcept {
            if (error) {
                auto description =
                        [error.localizedDescription cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-                LOG(WARNING) << description;
+                utils::slog.w << description << utils::io::endl;
                errorMessage = error.localizedDescription;
            }
            PANIC_LOG("Failed to load main0 in Metal program.");
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

 #include "MetalEnums.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>

 namespace filament {
 namespace backend {
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ id<MTLRenderPipelineState> PipelineStateCreator::operator()(id<MTLDevice> device
            [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Could not create Metal pipeline state: %@",
                error ? error.localizedDescription : @"unknown error"];
        auto description = [errorMessage cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
-        LOG(ERROR) << description;
+        utils::slog.e << description << utils::io::endl;
        [[NSException exceptionWithName:@"MetalRenderPipelineFailure"
                                 reason:errorMessage
                               userInfo:nil] raise];
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ id<MTLSamplerState> SamplerStateCreator::operator()(id<MTLDevice> device,
    // MTLSamplerDescriptor.
    // In practice, this means shadows are not supported when running in the simulator.
    if (![device supportsFeatureSet:MTLFeatureSet_iOS_GPUFamily3_v1]) {
-        LOG(WARNING) << "Warning: sample comparison not supported by this GPU";
+        utils::slog.w << "Warning: sample comparison not supported by this GPU" << utils::io::endl;
        samplerDescriptor.compareFunction = MTLCompareFunctionNever;
    }
 #endif
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

 #include "MetalDriverFactory.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>

 #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@@ -129,8 +129,9 @@ void PlatformMetalImpl::createDeviceImpl(MetalDevice& outDevice) {
        result = MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice();
    }

-    LOG(INFO) << "Selected physical device '"
-              << [result.name cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] << "'";
+    utils::slog.i << "Selected physical device '"
+                  << [result.name cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] << "'"
+                  << utils::io::endl;

    outDevice.device = result;
    mDevice = result;
@@ -69,8 +69,9 @@ public:
        assert_invariant(set < MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SET_COUNT);
        assert_invariant(binding < MAX_DESCRIPTOR_COUNT);
        assert_invariant(entry.binding < 128); // we reserve 1 bit for the type right now
-        mStorage[set][binding] = { uint8_t(entry.binding),
-                                   DescriptorSetLayoutBinding::isSampler(entry.type) };
+        mStorage[set][binding] = { (uint8_t)entry.binding,
+                                   entry.type == DescriptorType::SAMPLER ||
+                                   entry.type == DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL };
        mActiveDescriptors[set].set(binding);
    }

@@ -95,32 +95,7 @@ GLDescriptorSet::GLDescriptorSet(OpenGLContext& gl, DescriptorSetLayoutHandle ds
                }
                break;
            }
-
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
+            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER:
            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL:
                if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(gl.isES2())) {
                    desc.emplace<SamplerGLES2>();
@@ -162,11 +137,8 @@ void GLDescriptorSet::update(OpenGLContext&,
    }, descriptors[binding].desc);
 }

-void GLDescriptorSet::update(OpenGLContext& gl, HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocator,
-        descriptor_binding_t binding, TextureHandle th, SamplerParams params) noexcept {
-
-    GLTexture* t = th ? handleAllocator.handle_cast<GLTexture*>(th) : nullptr;
-
+void GLDescriptorSet::update(OpenGLContext& gl,
+        descriptor_binding_t binding, GLTexture* t, SamplerParams params) noexcept {
    assert_invariant(binding < descriptors.size());
    std::visit([=, &gl](auto&& arg) mutable {
        using T = std::decay_t<decltype(arg)>;
@@ -199,12 +171,20 @@ void GLDescriptorSet::update(OpenGLContext& gl, HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocat
                }
            }

-            arg.handle = th;
+            arg.target = t ? t->gl.target : 0;
+            arg.id = t ? t->gl.id : 0;
+            arg.external = t ? t->gl.external :  false;
            if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, Sampler> ||
                          std::is_same_v<T, SamplerWithAnisotropyWorkaround>) {
                if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, SamplerWithAnisotropyWorkaround>) {
                    arg.anisotropy = float(1u << params.anisotropyLog2);
                }
+                if (t) {
+                    arg.ref = t->ref;
+                    arg.baseLevel = t->gl.baseLevel;
+                    arg.maxLevel = t->gl.maxLevel;
+                    arg.swizzle = t->gl.swizzle;
+                }
 #ifndef FILAMENT_SILENCE_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_ES2
                arg.sampler = gl.getSampler(params);
 #else
@@ -220,39 +200,39 @@ void GLDescriptorSet::update(OpenGLContext& gl, HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocat
    }, descriptors[binding].desc);
 }

+template<typename T>
 void GLDescriptorSet::updateTextureView(OpenGLContext& gl,
-        HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocator, GLuint unit, GLTexture const* t) noexcept {
+        HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocator, GLuint unit, T const& desc) noexcept {
    // The common case is that we don't have a ref handle (we only have one if
    // the texture ever had a View on it).
-    assert_invariant(t);
-    assert_invariant(t->ref);
-    GLTextureRef* const ref = handleAllocator.handle_cast<GLTextureRef*>(t->ref);
-    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY((t->gl.baseLevel != ref->baseLevel || t->gl.maxLevel != ref->maxLevel))) {
+    assert_invariant(desc.ref);
+    GLTextureRef* const ref = handleAllocator.handle_cast<GLTextureRef*>(desc.ref);
+    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY((desc.baseLevel != ref->baseLevel || desc.maxLevel != ref->maxLevel))) {
        // If we have views, then it's still uncommon that we'll switch often
        // handle the case where we reset to the original texture
-        GLint baseLevel = GLint(t->gl.baseLevel); // NOLINT(*-signed-char-misuse)
-        GLint maxLevel = GLint(t->gl.maxLevel); // NOLINT(*-signed-char-misuse)
+        GLint baseLevel = GLint(desc.baseLevel); // NOLINT(*-signed-char-misuse)
+        GLint maxLevel = GLint(desc.maxLevel); // NOLINT(*-signed-char-misuse)
        if (baseLevel > maxLevel) {
            baseLevel = 0;
            maxLevel = 1000; // per OpenGL spec
        }
        // that is very unfortunate that we have to call activeTexture here
        gl.activeTexture(unit);
-        glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_BASE_LEVEL, baseLevel);
-        glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL,  maxLevel);
-        ref->baseLevel = t->gl.baseLevel;
-        ref->maxLevel = t->gl.maxLevel;
+        glTexParameteri(desc.target, GL_TEXTURE_BASE_LEVEL, baseLevel);
+        glTexParameteri(desc.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_LEVEL,  maxLevel);
+        ref->baseLevel = desc.baseLevel;
+        ref->maxLevel = desc.maxLevel;
    }
-    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(t->gl.swizzle != ref->swizzle)) {
+    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(desc.swizzle != ref->swizzle)) {
        using namespace GLUtils;
        gl.activeTexture(unit);
 #if !defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__)  && !defined(FILAMENT_SILENCE_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_ES2)
-        glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_R, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(t->gl.swizzle[0]));
-        glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_G, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(t->gl.swizzle[1]));
-        glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_B, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(t->gl.swizzle[2]));
-        glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_A, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(t->gl.swizzle[3]));
+        glTexParameteri(desc.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_R, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(desc.swizzle[0]));
+        glTexParameteri(desc.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_G, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(desc.swizzle[1]));
+        glTexParameteri(desc.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_B, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(desc.swizzle[2]));
+        glTexParameteri(desc.target, GL_TEXTURE_SWIZZLE_A, (GLint)getSwizzleChannel(desc.swizzle[3]));
 #endif
-        ref->swizzle = t->gl.swizzle;
+        ref->swizzle = desc.swizzle;
    }
 }

@@ -305,31 +285,27 @@ void GLDescriptorSet::bind(
                }
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, Sampler>) {
                GLuint const unit = p.getTextureUnit(set, binding);
-
-
-                if (arg.handle) {
-                    GLTexture const* const t = handleAllocator.handle_cast<GLTexture*>(arg.handle);
-                    gl.bindTexture(unit, t->gl.target, t->gl.id, t->gl.external);
+                if (arg.target) {
+                    gl.bindTexture(unit, arg.target, arg.id, arg.external);
                    gl.bindSampler(unit, arg.sampler);
-                    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(t->ref)) {
-                        updateTextureView(gl, handleAllocator, unit, t);
+                    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(arg.ref)) {
+                        updateTextureView(gl, handleAllocator, unit, arg);
                    }
                } else {
                    gl.unbindTextureUnit(unit);
                }
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, SamplerWithAnisotropyWorkaround>) {
                GLuint const unit = p.getTextureUnit(set, binding);
-                if (arg.handle) {
-                    GLTexture const* const t = handleAllocator.handle_cast<GLTexture*>(arg.handle);
-                    gl.bindTexture(unit, t->gl.target, t->gl.id, t->gl.external);
+                if (arg.target) {
+                    gl.bindTexture(unit, arg.target, arg.id, arg.external);
                    gl.bindSampler(unit, arg.sampler);
-                    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(t->ref)) {
-                        updateTextureView(gl, handleAllocator, unit, t);
+                    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(arg.ref)) {
+                        updateTextureView(gl, handleAllocator, unit, arg);
                    }
 #if defined(GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic)
                    // Driver claims to support anisotropic filtering, but it fails when set on
                    // the sampler, we have to set it on the texture instead.
-                    glTexParameterf(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
+                    glTexParameterf(arg.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
                            std::min(gl.gets.max_anisotropy, float(arg.anisotropy)));
 #endif
                } else {
@@ -338,20 +314,19 @@ void GLDescriptorSet::bind(
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, SamplerGLES2>) {
                // in ES2 the sampler parameters need to be set on the texture itself
                GLuint const unit = p.getTextureUnit(set, binding);
-                if (arg.handle) {
-                    GLTexture const* const t = handleAllocator.handle_cast<GLTexture*>(arg.handle);
-                    gl.bindTexture(unit, t->gl.target, t->gl.id, t->gl.external);
+                if (arg.target) {
+                    gl.bindTexture(unit, arg.target, arg.id, arg.external);
                    SamplerParams const params = arg.params;
-                    glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
+                    glTexParameteri(arg.target, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
                            (GLint)GLUtils::getTextureFilter(params.filterMin));
-                    glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
+                    glTexParameteri(arg.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
                            (GLint)GLUtils::getTextureFilter(params.filterMag));
-                    glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S,
+                    glTexParameteri(arg.target, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S,
                            (GLint)GLUtils::getWrapMode(params.wrapS));
-                    glTexParameteri(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T,
+                    glTexParameteri(arg.target, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T,
                            (GLint)GLUtils::getWrapMode(params.wrapT));
 #if defined(GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic)
-                    glTexParameterf(t->gl.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
+                    glTexParameterf(arg.target, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT,
                            std::min(gl.gets.max_anisotropy, arg.anisotropy));
 #endif
                } else {
@@ -360,7 +335,7 @@ void GLDescriptorSet::bind(
            }
        }, entry.desc);
    });
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void GLDescriptorSet::validate(HandleAllocatorGL& allocator,
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ struct GLDescriptorSet : public HwDescriptorSet {
            descriptor_binding_t binding, GLBufferObject* bo, size_t offset, size_t size) noexcept;

    // update a sampler descriptor in the set
-    void update(OpenGLContext& gl, HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocator,
-            descriptor_binding_t binding, TextureHandle th, SamplerParams params) noexcept;
+    void update(OpenGLContext& gl,
+            descriptor_binding_t binding, GLTexture* t, SamplerParams params) noexcept;

    // conceptually bind the set to the command buffer
    void bind(
@@ -111,19 +111,46 @@ private:

    // A sampler descriptor
    struct Sampler {
-        TextureHandle handle;                   // 4
+        uint16_t target;                        // 2 (GLenum)
+        bool external = false;                  // 1
+        bool reserved = false;                  // 1
+        GLuint id = 0;                          // 4
        GLuint sampler = 0;                     // 4
+        Handle<GLTextureRef> ref;               // 4
+        int8_t baseLevel = 0x7f;                // 1
+        int8_t maxLevel = -1;                   // 1
+        std::array<TextureSwizzle, 4> swizzle{  // 4
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_0,
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_1,
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_2,
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_3
+        };
    };

    struct SamplerWithAnisotropyWorkaround {
-        TextureHandle handle;                   // 4
+        uint16_t target;                        // 2 (GLenum)
+        bool external = false;                  // 1
+        bool reserved = false;                  // 1
+        GLuint id = 0;                          // 4
        GLuint sampler = 0;                     // 4
+        Handle<GLTextureRef> ref;               // 4
        math::half anisotropy = 1.0f;           // 2
+        int8_t baseLevel = 0x7f;                // 1
+        int8_t maxLevel = -1;                   // 1
+        std::array<TextureSwizzle, 4> swizzle{  // 4
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_0,
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_1,
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_2,
+                TextureSwizzle::CHANNEL_3
+        };
    };

    // A sampler descriptor for ES2
    struct SamplerGLES2 {
-        TextureHandle handle;                   // 4
+        uint16_t target;                        // 2 (GLenum)
+        bool external = false;                  // 1
+        bool reserved = false;                  // 1
+        GLuint id = 0;                          // 4
        SamplerParams params{};                 // 4
        float anisotropy = 1.0f;                // 4
    };
@@ -138,8 +165,9 @@ private:
    };
    static_assert(sizeof(Descriptor) <= 32);

+    template<typename T>
    static void updateTextureView(OpenGLContext& gl,
-            HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocator, GLuint unit, GLTexture const* t) noexcept;
+            HandleAllocatorGL& handleAllocator, GLuint unit, T const& desc) noexcept;

    utils::FixedCapacityVector<Descriptor> descriptors;     // 16
    utils::bitset64 dynamicBuffers;                         // 8
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@

 #include "private/backend/Driver.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
 #include <utils/trap.h>
@@ -26,7 +25,6 @@
 #include <string_view>

 #include <stddef.h>
-#include <cstdio>

 namespace filament::backend {

@@ -57,21 +55,19 @@ std::string_view getGLErrorString(GLenum error) noexcept {
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-GLenum checkGLError(const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
+GLenum checkGLError(io::ostream& out, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
    GLenum const error = glGetError();
    if (UTILS_VERY_UNLIKELY(error != GL_NO_ERROR)) {
        auto const string = getGLErrorString(error);
-        char hexError[16];
-        snprintf(hexError, sizeof(hexError), "%#x", error);
-        LOG(ERROR) << "OpenGL error " << hexError << " (" << string << ") in \"" << function
-                   << "\" at line " << line;
+        out << "OpenGL error " << io::hex << error << " (" << string << ") in \""
+            << function << "\" at line " << io::dec << line << io::endl;
    }
    return error;
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-void assertGLError(const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
-    GLenum const err = checkGLError(function, line);
+void assertGLError(io::ostream& out, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
+    GLenum const err = checkGLError(out, function, line);
    if (UTILS_VERY_UNLIKELY(err != GL_NO_ERROR)) {
        debug_trap();
    }
@@ -101,21 +97,19 @@ std::string_view getFramebufferStatusString(GLenum status) noexcept {
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-GLenum checkFramebufferStatus(GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
+GLenum checkFramebufferStatus(io::ostream& out, GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
    GLenum const status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(target);
    if (UTILS_VERY_UNLIKELY(status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE)) {
        auto const string = getFramebufferStatusString(status);
-        char hexStatus[16];
-        snprintf(hexStatus, sizeof(hexStatus), "%#x", status);
-        LOG(ERROR) << "OpenGL framebuffer error " << hexStatus << " (" << string << ") in \""
-                   << function << "\" at line " << line;
+        out << "OpenGL framebuffer error " << io::hex << status << " (" << string << ") in \""
+            << function << "\" at line " << io::dec << line << io::endl;
    }
    return status;
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-void assertFramebufferStatus(GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
-    GLenum const status = checkFramebufferStatus(target, function, line);
+void assertFramebufferStatus(io::ostream& out, GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept {
+    GLenum const status = checkFramebufferStatus(out, target, function, line);
    if (UTILS_VERY_UNLIKELY(status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE)) {
        debug_trap();
    }
@@ -33,21 +33,21 @@
 namespace filament::backend::GLUtils {

 std::string_view getGLErrorString(GLenum error) noexcept;
-GLenum checkGLError(const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;
-void assertGLError(const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;
+GLenum checkGLError(utils::io::ostream& out, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;
+void assertGLError(utils::io::ostream& out, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;

 std::string_view getFramebufferStatusString(GLenum err) noexcept;
-GLenum checkFramebufferStatus(GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;
-void assertFramebufferStatus(GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;
+GLenum checkFramebufferStatus(utils::io::ostream& out, GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;
+void assertFramebufferStatus(utils::io::ostream& out, GLenum target, const char* function, size_t line) noexcept;

 #ifdef NDEBUG
-#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR()
-#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL()
-#   define CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(target)
+#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR(out)
+#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL(out)
+#   define CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(out, target)
 #else
-#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR() { GLUtils::assertGLError(__func__, __LINE__); }
-#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL() { GLUtils::checkGLError(__func__, __LINE__); }
-#   define CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(target) { GLUtils::checkFramebufferStatus( target, __func__, __LINE__); }
+#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR(out) { GLUtils::assertGLError(out, __func__, __LINE__); }
+#   define CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL(out) { GLUtils::checkGLError(out, __func__, __LINE__); }
+#   define CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(out, target) { GLUtils::checkFramebufferStatus(out, target, __func__, __LINE__); }
 #endif

 constexpr GLuint getComponentCount(ElementType const type) noexcept {
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 #include <backend/Platform.h>
 #include <backend/Program.h>

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 namespace filament::backend {

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OpenGLBlobCache::OpenGLBlobCache(OpenGLContext& gl) noexcept

 GLuint OpenGLBlobCache::retrieve(BlobCacheKey* outKey, Platform& platform,
        Program const& program) const noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();
    if (!mCachingSupported || !platform.hasRetrieveBlobFunc()) {
        // the key is never updated in that case
        return 0;
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ GLuint OpenGLBlobCache::retrieve(BlobCacheKey* outKey, Platform& platform,
        programId = glCreateProgram();

        { // scope for systrace
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "glProgramBinary");
+            SYSTRACE_NAME("glProgramBinary");
            glProgramBinary(programId, blob->format, blob->data, programBinarySize);
        }

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ GLuint OpenGLBlobCache::retrieve(BlobCacheKey* outKey, Platform& platform,

 void OpenGLBlobCache::insert(Platform& platform,
        BlobCacheKey const& key, GLuint program) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();
    if (!mCachingSupported || !platform.hasInsertBlobFunc()) {
        // the key is never updated in that case
        return;
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ void OpenGLBlobCache::insert(Platform& platform,
    GLenum format;
    GLint programBinarySize = 0;
    { // scope for systrace
-        FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "glGetProgramiv");
+        SYSTRACE_NAME("glGetProgramiv");
        glGetProgramiv(program, GL_PROGRAM_BINARY_LENGTH, &programBinarySize);
    }
    if (programBinarySize) {
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ void OpenGLBlobCache::insert(Platform& platform,
        std::unique_ptr<Blob, decltype(&::free)> blob{ (Blob*)malloc(size), &::free };
        if (UTILS_LIKELY(blob)) {
            { // scope for systrace
-                FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "glGetProgramBinary");
+                SYSTRACE_NAME("glGetProgramBinary");
                glGetProgramBinary(program, programBinarySize,
                        &programBinarySize, &format, blob->data);
            }
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
 #include <backend/platforms/OpenGLPlatform.h>
 #include <backend/DriverEnums.h>

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>

 #include <functional>
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ OpenGLContext::OpenGLContext(OpenGLPlatform& platform,
    state.version  = (char const*)glGetString(GL_VERSION);
    state.shader   = (char const*)glGetString(GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION);

-    LOG(INFO) << "[" << state.vendor << "], [" << state.renderer << "], "
-                 "[" << state.version << "], [" << state.shader << "]";
+    slog.v << "[" << state.vendor << "], [" << state.renderer << "], "
+              "[" << state.version << "], [" << state.shader << "]" << io::endl;

    /*
     * Figure out GL / GLES version, extensions and capabilities we need to
@@ -164,33 +164,51 @@ OpenGLContext::OpenGLContext(OpenGLPlatform& platform,
    }
 #endif

-    LOG(INFO) << "Feature level: " << +mFeatureLevel;
-    LOG(INFO) << "Active workarounds: ";
+    slog.v << "Feature level: " << +mFeatureLevel << '\n';
+    slog.v << "Active workarounds: " << '\n';
    UTILS_NOUNROLL
    for (auto [enabled, name, _] : mBugDatabase) {
        if (enabled) {
-            LOG(INFO) << name;
+            slog.v << name << '\n';
        }
    }
+    flush(slog.v);

 #ifndef NDEBUG
    // this is useful for development
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT = " << gets.max_anisotropy;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = " << gets.max_combined_texture_image_units;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = " << gets.max_texture_size;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_CUBE_MAP_TEXTURE_SIZE = " << gets.max_cubemap_texture_size;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE = " << gets.max_3d_texture_size;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_ARRAY_TEXTURE_LAYERS = " << gets.max_array_texture_layers;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_DRAW_BUFFERS = " << gets.max_draw_buffers;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE = " << gets.max_renderbuffer_size;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_SAMPLES = " << gets.max_samples;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = " << gets.max_texture_image_units;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS = "
-              << gets.max_transform_feedback_separate_attribs;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_UNIFORM_BLOCK_SIZE = " << gets.max_uniform_block_size;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_MAX_UNIFORM_BUFFER_BINDINGS = " << gets.max_uniform_buffer_bindings;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_NUM_PROGRAM_BINARY_FORMATS = " << gets.num_program_binary_formats;
-    LOG(INFO) << "GL_UNIFORM_BUFFER_OFFSET_ALIGNMENT = " << gets.uniform_buffer_offset_alignment;
+    slog.v
+            << "GL_MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT = "
+                    << gets.max_anisotropy << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = "
+                    << gets.max_combined_texture_image_units << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = "
+                    << gets.max_texture_size << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_CUBE_MAP_TEXTURE_SIZE = "
+                    << gets.max_cubemap_texture_size << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE = "
+                    << gets.max_3d_texture_size << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_ARRAY_TEXTURE_LAYERS = "
+                    << gets.max_array_texture_layers << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_DRAW_BUFFERS = "
+                    << gets.max_draw_buffers << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE = "
+                    << gets.max_renderbuffer_size << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_SAMPLES = "
+                    << gets.max_samples << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = "
+                    << gets.max_texture_image_units << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_SEPARATE_ATTRIBS = "
+                    << gets.max_transform_feedback_separate_attribs << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_UNIFORM_BLOCK_SIZE = "
+                    << gets.max_uniform_block_size << '\n'
+            << "GL_MAX_UNIFORM_BUFFER_BINDINGS = "
+                    << gets.max_uniform_buffer_bindings << '\n'
+            << "GL_NUM_PROGRAM_BINARY_FORMATS = "
+                    << gets.num_program_binary_formats << '\n'
+            << "GL_UNIFORM_BUFFER_OFFSET_ALIGNMENT = "
+                    << gets.uniform_buffer_offset_alignment << '\n'
+            ;
+    flush(slog.v);
 #endif

 #ifndef FILAMENT_SILENCE_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_ES2
@@ -224,14 +242,15 @@ OpenGLContext::OpenGLContext(OpenGLPlatform& platform,
    if (ext.KHR_debug) {
        auto cb = +[](GLenum, GLenum type, GLuint, GLenum severity, GLsizei length,
                const GLchar* message, const void *) {
-            auto logSeverity = utils::LogSeverity::kInfo;
+            io::ostream* stream = &slog.i;
            switch (severity) {
-                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH:    logSeverity = utils::LogSeverity::kError;   break;
-                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM:  logSeverity = utils::LogSeverity::kWarning; break;
-                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW:     logSeverity = utils::LogSeverity::kInfo;    break;
+                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH:    stream = &slog.e;   break;
+                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM:  stream = &slog.w;   break;
+                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW:     stream = &slog.d;   break;
                case GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_NOTIFICATION:
                default: break;
            }
+            io::ostream& out = *stream;
            const char* level = ": ";
            switch (type) {
                case GL_DEBUG_TYPE_ERROR:               level = "ERROR: ";               break;
@@ -243,7 +262,7 @@ OpenGLContext::OpenGLContext(OpenGLPlatform& platform,
                case GL_DEBUG_TYPE_MARKER:              level = "MARKER: ";              break;
                default: break;
            }
-            LOG(LEVEL(logSeverity)) << "KHR_debug " << level << std::string_view{ message, size_t(length) };
+            out << "KHR_debug " << level << std::string_view{ message, size_t(length) } << io::endl;
        };
        glEnable(GL_DEBUG_OUTPUT);
        glEnable(GL_DEBUG_OUTPUT_SYNCHRONOUS);
@@ -688,8 +707,9 @@ void OpenGLContext::initExtensionsGLES(Extensions* ext, GLint major, GLint minor
    GLUtils::unordered_string_set const exts = GLUtils::split(extensions);
    if constexpr (DEBUG_PRINT_EXTENSIONS) {
        for (auto extension: exts) {
-            DLOG(INFO) << "\"" << std::string_view(extension) << "\"";
+            slog.d << "\"" << std::string_view(extension) << "\"\n";
        }
+        flush(slog.d);
    }

    // figure out and initialize the extensions we need
@@ -763,8 +783,9 @@ void OpenGLContext::initExtensionsGL(Extensions* ext, GLint major, GLint minor)
    }
    if constexpr (DEBUG_PRINT_EXTENSIONS) {
        for (auto extension: exts) {
-            DLOG(INFO) << "\"" << std::string_view(extension) << "\"";
+            slog.d << "\"" << std::string_view(extension) << "\"\n";
        }
+        flush(slog.d);
    }

    using namespace std::literals;
@@ -1024,7 +1045,7 @@ GLuint OpenGLContext::getSamplerSlow(SamplerParams params) const noexcept {
                std::min(gets.max_anisotropy, anisotropy));
    }
 #endif
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    mSamplerMap[params] = s;
    return s;
 }
@@ -44,17 +44,15 @@
 #include "private/backend/Dispatcher.h"
 #include "private/backend/DriverApi.h"

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
 #include <type_traits>
 #include <utils/BitmaskEnum.h>
-#include <utils/CString.h>
 #include <utils/FixedCapacityVector.h>
+#include <utils/CString.h>
 #include <utils/Invocable.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>
-#include <utils/Slice.h>
 #include <utils/Systrace.h>
+#include <utils/Slice.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
@@ -100,13 +98,13 @@

 #define DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_NONE       0x00    // no debug marker
 #define DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_OPENGL     0x01    // markers in the gl command queue (req. driver support)
-#define DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_BACKEND    0x02    // markers on the backend side (perfetto)
+#define DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_BACKEND    0x02    // markers on the backend side (systrace)
 #define DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_ALL        0xFF    // all markers

 #define DEBUG_MARKER_NONE             0x00    // no debug marker
 #define DEBUG_MARKER_OPENGL           0x01    // markers in the gl command queue (req. driver support)
-#define DEBUG_MARKER_BACKEND          0x02    // markers on the backend side (perfetto)
-#define DEBUG_MARKER_PROFILE          0x04    // profiling on the backend side (perfetto)
+#define DEBUG_MARKER_BACKEND          0x02    // markers on the backend side (systrace)
+#define DEBUG_MARKER_PROFILE          0x04    // profiling on the backend side (systrace)
 #define DEBUG_MARKER_ALL              (0xFF & ~DEBUG_MARKER_PROFILE) // all markers

 // set to the desired debug marker level (for user markers [default: All])
@@ -185,18 +183,20 @@ OpenGLDriver* OpenGLDriver::create(OpenGLPlatform* platform,
    //    GLVertexBufferInfo        : 132       moderate
    // -- less than or equal to 136 bytes

-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLSwapChain: " << sizeof(GLSwapChain);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLBufferObject: " << sizeof(GLBufferObject);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLVertexBuffer: " << sizeof(GLVertexBuffer);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLVertexBufferInfo: " << sizeof(GLVertexBufferInfo);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLIndexBuffer: " << sizeof(GLIndexBuffer);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLRenderPrimitive: " << sizeof(GLRenderPrimitive);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLTexture: " << sizeof(GLTexture);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLTimerQuery: " << sizeof(GLTimerQuery);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLStream: " << sizeof(GLStream);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLRenderTarget: " << sizeof(GLRenderTarget);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "GLFence: " << sizeof(GLFence);
-    DLOG(INFO) << "OpenGLProgram: " << sizeof(OpenGLProgram);
+    slog.d
+           << "\nGLSwapChain: " << sizeof(GLSwapChain)
+           << "\nGLBufferObject: " << sizeof(GLBufferObject)
+           << "\nGLVertexBuffer: " << sizeof(GLVertexBuffer)
+           << "\nGLVertexBufferInfo: " << sizeof(GLVertexBufferInfo)
+           << "\nGLIndexBuffer: " << sizeof(GLIndexBuffer)
+           << "\nGLRenderPrimitive: " << sizeof(GLRenderPrimitive)
+           << "\nGLTexture: " << sizeof(GLTexture)
+           << "\nGLTimerQuery: " << sizeof(GLTimerQuery)
+           << "\nGLStream: " << sizeof(GLStream)
+           << "\nGLRenderTarget: " << sizeof(GLRenderTarget)
+           << "\nGLFence: " << sizeof(GLFence)
+           << "\nOpenGLProgram: " << sizeof(OpenGLProgram)
+           << io::endl;
 #endif

    // here we check we're on a supported version of GL before initializing the driver
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ OpenGLDriver::DebugMarker::DebugMarker(OpenGLDriver& driver, const char* string)
 #endif

 #if DEBUG_MARKER_LEVEL & DEBUG_MARKER_BACKEND
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_BEGIN(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, string);
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_NAME_BEGIN(string);
 #endif
 #endif
 }
@@ -265,8 +265,8 @@ OpenGLDriver::DebugMarker::~DebugMarker() noexcept {
 #endif

 #if DEBUG_MARKER_LEVEL & DEBUG_MARKER_BACKEND
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_END(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_NAME_END();
 #endif
 #endif
 }
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ OpenGLDriver::OpenGLDriver(OpenGLPlatform* platform, const Platform::DriverConfi
    mStreamsWithPendingAcquiredImage.reserve(8);

 #ifndef NDEBUG
-    LOG(INFO) << "OS version: " << mPlatform.getOSVersion();
+    slog.i << "OS version: " << mPlatform.getOSVersion() << io::endl;
 #endif

    // Timer queries are core in GL 3.3, otherwise we need EXT_disjoint_timer_query
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createIndexBufferR(
    gl.bindVertexArray(nullptr);
    gl.bindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ib->gl.buffer);
    glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, size, nullptr, getBufferUsage(usage));
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createBufferObjectR(Handle<HwBufferObject> boh,
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createBufferObjectR(Handle<HwBufferObject> boh,
        glBufferData(bo->gl.binding, byteCount, nullptr, getBufferUsage(usage));
    }

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createRenderPrimitiveR(Handle<HwRenderPrimitive> rph,
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createRenderPrimitiveR(Handle<HwRenderPrimitive> rph,
    // this records the index buffer into the currently bound VAO
    gl.bindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, ib->gl.buffer);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createProgramR(Handle<HwProgram> ph, Program&& program) {
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createProgramR(Handle<HwProgram> ph, Program&& program) {
    }

    construct<OpenGLProgram>(ph, *this, std::move(program));
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
@@ -931,12 +931,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createTextureR(Handle<HwTexture> th, SamplerType target, uint
 #if defined(BACKEND_OPENGL_LEVEL_GLES31)
                if (gl.features.multisample_texture) {
                    // multi-sample texture on GL 3.2 / GLES 3.1 and above
-                    if (depth <= 1) {
-                        // We forcibly change the target to 2D-multisample only for flat texture.
-                        // A depth value greater than 1 may indicate multiview usage, which requires
-                        // GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY. Also 2D MSAA won't work with non-flat texture anyway.
-                        t->gl.target = GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE;
-                    }
+                    t->gl.target = GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE;
                } else {
                    // Turn off multi-sampling for that texture. It's just not supported.
                }
@@ -952,7 +947,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createTextureR(Handle<HwTexture> th, SamplerType target, uint
        renderBufferStorage(t->gl.id, internalFormat, w, h, samples);
    }

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createTextureViewR(Handle<HwTexture> th,
@@ -998,7 +993,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createTextureViewR(Handle<HwTexture> th,
    assert_invariant(ref);
    ref->count++;

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createTextureViewSwizzleR(Handle<HwTexture> th, Handle<HwTexture> srch,
@@ -1061,7 +1056,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createTextureViewSwizzleR(Handle<HwTexture> th, Handle<HwText
    assert_invariant(ref);
    ref->count++;

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createTextureExternalImage2R(Handle<HwTexture> th, SamplerType target,
@@ -1212,19 +1207,14 @@ void OpenGLDriver::importTextureR(Handle<HwTexture> th, intptr_t id,
 #if defined(BACKEND_OPENGL_LEVEL_GLES31)
        if (gl.features.multisample_texture) {
            // multi-sample texture on GL 3.2 / GLES 3.1 and above
-            if (depth <= 1) {
-                // We forcibly change the target to 2D-multisample only for flat texture.
-                // A depth value greater than 1 may indicate multiview usage, which requires
-                // GL_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY. Also 2D MSAA won't work with non-flat texture anyway.
-                t->gl.target = GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE;
-            }
+            t->gl.target = GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE;
        } else {
            // Turn off multi-sampling for that texture. It's just not supported.
        }
 #endif
    }

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::updateVertexArrayObject(GLRenderPrimitive* rp, GLVertexBuffer const* vb) {
@@ -1462,15 +1452,8 @@ void OpenGLDriver::framebufferTexture(TargetBufferInfo const& binfo,
 #if !defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__) && !defined(FILAMENT_IOS)
                if (layerCount > 1) {
                    // if layerCount > 1, it means we use the multiview extension.
-                    if (rt->gl.samples > 1) {
-                        // For MSAA
-                        glFramebufferTextureMultisampleMultiviewOVR(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, attachment,
-                                t->gl.id, 0, rt->gl.samples, binfo.layer, layerCount);
-                    }
-                    else {
-                        glFramebufferTextureMultiviewOVR(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, attachment, t->gl.id, 0,
-                                binfo.layer, layerCount);
-                    }
+                    glFramebufferTextureMultiviewOVR(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, attachment,
+                        t->gl.id, 0, binfo.layer, layerCount);
                } else
 #endif // !defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__) && !defined(FILAMENT_IOS)
                {
@@ -1484,7 +1467,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::framebufferTexture(TargetBufferInfo const& binfo,
                // we shouldn't be here
                break;
        }
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    } else
 #ifndef __EMSCRIPTEN__
 #ifdef GL_EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture
@@ -1505,7 +1488,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::framebufferTexture(TargetBufferInfo const& binfo,
            glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, attachment,
                    GL_RENDERBUFFER, t->gl.id);
        }
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    } else
 #endif // GL_EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture
 #endif // __EMSCRIPTEN__
@@ -1587,13 +1570,13 @@ void OpenGLDriver::framebufferTexture(TargetBufferInfo const& binfo,
                break;
        }

-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    }

    rt->gl.resolve |= resolveFlags;

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_FRAMEBUFFER)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::renderBufferStorage(GLuint rbo, GLenum internalformat, uint32_t width, // NOLINT(readability-convert-member-functions-to-static)
@@ -1622,7 +1605,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::renderBufferStorage(GLuint rbo, GLenum internalformat, uint32
    // unbind the renderbuffer, to avoid any later confusion
    glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, 0);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createDefaultRenderTargetR(
@@ -1719,7 +1702,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createRenderTargetR(Handle<HwRenderTarget> rth,
        if (UTILS_LIKELY(!getContext().isES2())) {
            glDrawBuffers((GLsizei)maxDrawBuffers, bufs);
        }
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    }
 #endif

@@ -1759,7 +1742,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::createRenderTargetR(Handle<HwRenderTarget> rth,
    assert_invariant(any(targets & TargetBufferFlags::ALL));
    assert_invariant(tmin == tmax);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::createFenceR(Handle<HwFence> fh, int) {
@@ -2110,7 +2093,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::setAcquiredImage(Handle<HwStream> sh, void* hwbuffer, const m

    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(glstream->user_thread.pending.image)) {
        scheduleRelease(glstream->user_thread.pending);
-        LOG(WARNING) << "Acquired image is set more than once per frame.";
+        slog.w << "Acquired image is set more than once per frame." << io::endl;
    }

    glstream->user_thread.pending = mPlatform.transformAcquiredImage({
@@ -2530,36 +2513,13 @@ void OpenGLDriver::makeCurrent(Handle<HwSwapChain> schDraw, Handle<HwSwapChain>

    mPlatform.makeCurrent(scDraw->swapChain, scRead->swapChain,
            [this]() {
-                for (auto t: mTexturesWithStreamsAttached) {
-                    if (t->hwStream->streamType == StreamType::NATIVE) {
-                        mPlatform.detach(t->hwStream->stream);
-                    }
-                }
                // OpenGL context is about to change, unbind everything
                mContext.unbindEverything();
            },
            [this](size_t index) {
-                for (auto t: mTexturesWithStreamsAttached) {
-                    if (t->hwStream->streamType == StreamType::NATIVE) {
-                        if (t->externalTexture) {
-                            glGenTextures(1, &t->externalTexture->id);
-                            t->gl.id = t->externalTexture->id;
-                        } else {
-                            glGenTextures(1, &t->gl.id);
-                        }
-                        mPlatform.attach(t->hwStream->stream, t->gl.id);
-                        mContext.updateTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES, t->gl.id);
-                    }
-                }
-
-                // force invalidation of all bound descriptor sets
-                decltype(mInvalidDescriptorSetBindings) changed;
-                changed.setValue((1 << MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SET_COUNT) - 1);
-                mInvalidDescriptorSetBindings |= changed;
-
                // OpenGL context has changed, resynchronize the state with the cache
                mContext.synchronizeStateAndCache(index);
-                DLOG(INFO) << "*** OpenGL context change : " << (index ? "protected" : "default");
+                slog.d << "*** OpenGL context change : " << (index ? "protected" : "default") << io::endl;
            });

    mCurrentDrawSwapChain = scDraw;
@@ -2600,7 +2560,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::setVertexBufferObject(Handle<HwVertexBuffer> vbh,
        vb->bufferObjectsVersion = (version + 1) % kMaxVersion;
    }

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::updateIndexBuffer(
@@ -2617,7 +2577,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::updateIndexBuffer(

    scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::registerBufferObjectStreams(Handle<HwBufferObject> boh, BufferObjectStreamDescriptor&& streams) {
@@ -2697,7 +2657,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::updateBufferObject(

    scheduleDestroy(std::move(bd));

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::updateBufferObjectUnsynchronized(
@@ -2744,7 +2704,7 @@ retry:
            scheduleDestroy(std::move(bd));
        }
    }
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 #endif
 }

@@ -2794,7 +2754,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::generateMipmaps(Handle<HwTexture> th) {

    glGenerateMipmap(t->gl.target);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::setTextureData(GLTexture const* t, uint32_t level,
@@ -2903,7 +2863,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::setTextureData(GLTexture const* t, uint32_t level,

    scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::setCompressedTextureData(GLTexture const* t, uint32_t level,
@@ -2989,7 +2949,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::setCompressedTextureData(GLTexture const* t, uint32_t level,

    scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::setupExternalImage2(Platform::ExternalImageHandleRef image) {
@@ -3031,7 +2991,6 @@ void OpenGLDriver::attachStream(GLTexture* t, GLStream* hwStream) noexcept {
    switch (hwStream->streamType) {
        case StreamType::NATIVE:
            mPlatform.attach(hwStream->stream, t->gl.id);
-            mContext.updateTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES, t->gl.id);
            break;
        case StreamType::ACQUIRED:
            break;
@@ -3060,12 +3019,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::detachStream(GLTexture* t) noexcept {
            break;
    }

-    if (t->externalTexture) {
-        glGenTextures(1, &t->externalTexture->id);
-        t->gl.id = t->externalTexture->id;
-    } else {
-        glGenTextures(1, &t->gl.id);
-    }
+    glGenTextures(1, &t->gl.id);

    t->hwStream = nullptr;
 }
@@ -3089,14 +3043,8 @@ void OpenGLDriver::replaceStream(GLTexture* texture, GLStream* newStream) noexce

    switch (newStream->streamType) {
        case StreamType::NATIVE:
-            if (texture->externalTexture) {
-                glGenTextures(1, &texture->externalTexture->id);
-                texture->gl.id = texture->externalTexture->id;
-            } else {
-                glGenTextures(1, &texture->gl.id);
-            }
+            glGenTextures(1, &texture->gl.id);
            mPlatform.attach(newStream->stream, texture->gl.id);
-            mContext.updateTexImage(GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES, texture->gl.id);
            break;
        case StreamType::ACQUIRED:
            // Just re-use the old texture id.
@@ -3152,7 +3100,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::beginRenderPass(Handle<HwRenderTarget> rth,
    TargetBufferFlags discardFlags = params.flags.discardStart & rt->targets;

    GLuint const fbo = gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, rt->gl.fbo);
-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_FRAMEBUFFER)

    // each render-pass starts with a disabled scissor
    gl.disable(GL_SCISSOR_TEST);
@@ -3164,7 +3112,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::beginRenderPass(Handle<HwRenderTarget> rth,
        if (attachmentCount) {
            gl.procs.invalidateFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, attachmentCount, attachments.data());
        }
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    } else {
        // It's important to clear the framebuffer before drawing, as it resets
        // the fb to a known state (resets fb compression and possibly other things).
@@ -3251,7 +3199,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::endRenderPass(int) {
            if (attachmentCount) {
                gl.procs.invalidateFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, attachmentCount, attachments.data());
            }
-           CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+           CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
        }
    }

@@ -3297,13 +3245,13 @@ void OpenGLDriver::resolvePass(ResolveAction action, GLRenderTarget const* rt,
        gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, read);
        gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, draw);

-        CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER)
-        CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER)
+        CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER)
+        CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER)

        gl.disable(GL_SCISSOR_TEST);
        glBlitFramebuffer(0, 0, (GLint)rt->width, (GLint)rt->height,
                0, 0, (GLint)rt->width, (GLint)rt->height, mask, GL_NEAREST);
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    }
 #endif
 }
@@ -3400,8 +3348,8 @@ void OpenGLDriver::pushGroupMarker(char const* string) {
 #endif

 #if DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_LEVEL & DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_BACKEND
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_BEGIN(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, string);
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_NAME_BEGIN(string);
 #endif
 #endif
 }
@@ -3417,8 +3365,8 @@ void OpenGLDriver::popGroupMarker(int) {
 #endif

 #if DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_LEVEL & DEBUG_GROUP_MARKER_BACKEND
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_END(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_NAME_END();
 #endif
 #endif
 }
@@ -3482,7 +3430,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::readPixels(Handle<HwRenderTarget> src,
        if (buffer) {
            gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, s->gl.fbo_read ? s->gl.fbo_read : s->gl.fbo);
            glReadPixels(GLint(x), GLint(y), GLint(width), GLint(height), glFormat, glType, buffer);
-            CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+            CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

            // now we need to flip the buffer vertically to match our API
            size_t const stride = p.stride ? p.stride : width;
@@ -3514,7 +3462,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::readPixels(Handle<HwRenderTarget> src,
    glBufferData(GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER, pboSize, nullptr, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
    glReadPixels(GLint(x), GLint(y), GLint(width), GLint(height), glFormat, glType, nullptr);
    gl.bindBuffer(GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER, 0);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    // we're forced to make a copy on the heap because otherwise it deletes std::function<> copy
    // constructor.
@@ -3554,7 +3502,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::readPixels(Handle<HwRenderTarget> src,
        glDeleteBuffers(1, &pbo);
        scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));
        delete pUserBuffer;
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    });
 #endif
 }
@@ -3579,7 +3527,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::readBufferSubData(BufferObjectHandle boh,
        glCopyBufferSubData(bo->gl.binding, GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER, offset, 0, size);
        gl.bindBuffer(bo->gl.binding, 0);
        gl.bindBuffer(GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER, 0);
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

        // then, we schedule a mapBuffer of the PBO later, once the fence has signaled
        auto* pUserBuffer = new BufferDescriptor(std::move(p));
@@ -3596,7 +3544,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::readBufferSubData(BufferObjectHandle boh,
            glDeleteBuffers(1, &pbo);
            scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));
            delete pUserBuffer;
-            CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+            CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
        });
    } else {
        gl.bindBuffer(bo->gl.binding, bo->gl.id);
@@ -3609,7 +3557,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::readBufferSubData(BufferObjectHandle boh,
        }
        gl.bindBuffer(bo->gl.binding, 0);
        scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    }
 #endif
 }
@@ -3639,7 +3587,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::whenFrameComplete(const std::function<void()>& fn) noexcept {
 void OpenGLDriver::whenGpuCommandsComplete(const std::function<void()>& fn) noexcept {
    GLsync sync = glFenceSync(GL_SYNC_GPU_COMMANDS_COMPLETE, 0);
    mGpuCommandCompleteOps.emplace_back(sync, fn);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::executeGpuCommandsCompleteOps() noexcept {
@@ -3737,7 +3685,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::endFrame(UTILS_UNUSED uint32_t frameId) {
    gl.depthFunc(GL_LESS);
    gl.disable(GL_SCISSOR_TEST);
 #endif
-    //FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "glFinish");
+    //SYSTRACE_NAME("glFinish");
    //glFinish();
    mPlatform.endFrame(frameId);
    insertEventMarker("endFrame");
@@ -3759,7 +3707,8 @@ void OpenGLDriver::updateDescriptorSetTexture(
        TextureHandle th,
        SamplerParams params) {
    GLDescriptorSet* ds = handle_cast<GLDescriptorSet*>(dsh);
-    ds->update(mContext, mHandleAllocator, binding, th, params);
+    GLTexture* t = th ? handle_cast<GLTexture*>(th) : nullptr;
+    ds->update(mContext, binding, t, params);
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::flush(int) {
@@ -3857,7 +3806,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::clearWithRasterPipe(TargetBufferFlags clearFlags,
        }
    }

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void OpenGLDriver::resolve(
@@ -3968,7 +3917,7 @@ void OpenGLDriver::blit(
        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL:
            break;
    }
-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER)

    gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, fbo[1]);
    switch (s->target) {
@@ -3994,14 +3943,14 @@ void OpenGLDriver::blit(
        case SamplerType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL:
            break;
    }
-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER)

    gl.disable(GL_SCISSOR_TEST);
    glBlitFramebuffer(
            srcOrigin.x, srcOrigin.y, srcOrigin.x + size.x, srcOrigin.y + size.y,
            dstOrigin.x, dstOrigin.y, dstOrigin.x + size.x, dstOrigin.y + size.y,
            mask, GL_NEAREST);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    gl.unbindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER);
    gl.unbindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER);
@@ -4064,15 +4013,15 @@ void OpenGLDriver::blitDEPRECATED(TargetBufferFlags buffers,
    gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER, s->gl.fbo);
    gl.bindFramebuffer(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, d->gl.fbo);

-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER)
-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_READ_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER)

    gl.disable(GL_SCISSOR_TEST);
    glBlitFramebuffer(
            srcRect.left, srcRect.bottom, srcRect.right(), srcRect.top(),
            dstRect.left, dstRect.bottom, dstRect.right(), dstRect.top(),
            GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT, glFilterMode);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 #endif
 }

@@ -4199,9 +4148,9 @@ void OpenGLDriver::draw2(uint32_t indexOffset, uint32_t indexCount, uint32_t ins
 #endif

 #if FILAMENT_ENABLE_MATDBG
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL(utils::slog.e)
 #else
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 #endif
 }

@@ -4231,9 +4180,9 @@ void OpenGLDriver::draw2GLES2(uint32_t indexOffset, uint32_t indexCount, uint32_
            reinterpret_cast<const void*>(indexOffset << rp->gl.indicesShift));

 #if FILAMENT_ENABLE_MATDBG
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL(utils::slog.e)
 #else
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 #endif
 }

@@ -4283,9 +4232,9 @@ void OpenGLDriver::dispatchCompute(Handle<HwProgram> program, uint3 workGroupCou
 #endif // BACKEND_OPENGL_LEVEL_GLES31

 #if FILAMENT_ENABLE_MATDBG
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR_NON_FATAL(utils::slog.e)
 #else
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 #endif
 }

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ utils::CString OpenGLPlatform::getRendererString(Driver const* driver) {
 }

 void OpenGLPlatform::makeCurrent(SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain,
-        utils::Invocable<void()>, utils::Invocable<void(size_t)>) {
+        utils::Invocable<void()>, utils::Invocable<void(size_t)>) noexcept {
    makeCurrent(getCurrentContextType(), drawSwapChain, readSwapChain);
 }

@@ -25,13 +25,12 @@
 #include <backend/Program.h>
 #include <backend/Handle.h>

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
 #include <utils/BitmaskEnum.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
 #include <utils/FixedCapacityVector.h>
 #include <utils/Log.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <algorithm>
 #include <array>
@@ -97,7 +96,8 @@ OpenGLProgram::~OpenGLProgram() noexcept {
 }

 void OpenGLProgram::initialize(OpenGLDriver& gld) {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    assert_invariant(gl.program == 0);
    assert_invariant(mToken);
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ void OpenGLProgram::initialize(OpenGLDriver& gld) {
 */
 void OpenGLProgram::initializeProgramState(OpenGLContext& context, GLuint program,
        LazyInitializationData& lazyInitializationData) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    // from the pipeline layout we compute a mapping from {set, binding} to {binding}
    // for both buffers and textures
@@ -174,31 +175,7 @@ void OpenGLProgram::initializeProgramState(OpenGLContext& context, GLuint progra
                    }
                    break;
                }
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT:
+                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER:
                case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL: {
                    if (!entry.name.empty()) {
                        GLint const loc = glGetUniformLocation(program, entry.name.c_str());
@@ -214,7 +191,7 @@ void OpenGLProgram::initializeProgramState(OpenGLContext& context, GLuint progra
                case DescriptorType::INPUT_ATTACHMENT:
                    break;
            }
-            CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+            CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
        }
    }

@@ -23,13 +23,12 @@
 #include <backend/platforms/OpenGLPlatform.h>
 #include <backend/DriverEnums.h>

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
 #include <utils/JobSystem.h>
 #include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Mutex.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <atomic>
 #include <memory>
@@ -114,14 +113,14 @@ void TimerQueryNativeFactory::createTimerQuery(GLTimerQuery* tq) {

    tq->state = std::make_shared<GLTimerQuery::State>();
    mContext.procs.genQueries(1u, &tq->state->gl.query);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void TimerQueryNativeFactory::destroyTimerQuery(GLTimerQuery* tq) {
    assert_invariant(tq->state);

    mContext.procs.deleteQueries(1u, &tq->state->gl.query);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    tq->state.reset();
 }
@@ -131,14 +130,14 @@ void TimerQueryNativeFactory::beginTimeElapsedQuery(GLTimerQuery* tq) {

    tq->state->elapsed.store(int64_t(TimerQueryResult::NOT_READY), std::memory_order_relaxed);
    mContext.procs.beginQuery(GL_TIME_ELAPSED, tq->state->gl.query);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 void TimerQueryNativeFactory::endTimeElapsedQuery(OpenGLDriver& driver, GLTimerQuery* tq) {
    assert_invariant(tq->state);

    mContext.procs.endQuery(GL_TIME_ELAPSED);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    std::weak_ptr<GLTimerQuery::State> const weak = tq->state;

@@ -153,7 +152,7 @@ void TimerQueryNativeFactory::endTimeElapsedQuery(OpenGLDriver& driver, GLTimerQ

        GLuint available = 0;
        context.procs.getQueryObjectuiv(state->gl.query, GL_QUERY_RESULT_AVAILABLE, &available);
-        CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+        CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
        if (!available) {
            // we need to try this one again later
            return false;
@@ -241,8 +240,8 @@ void TimerQueryFenceFactory::beginTimeElapsedQuery(GLTimerQuery* tq) {
        if (state) {
            platform.waitFence(fence, FENCE_WAIT_FOR_EVER);
            state->then = clock::now().time_since_epoch().count();
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_ASYNC_BEGIN(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "OpenGLTimerQueryFence", intptr_t(state.get()));
+            SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+            SYSTRACE_ASYNC_BEGIN("OpenGLTimerQueryFence", intptr_t(state.get()));
        }
        platform.destroyFence(fence);
    });
@@ -258,8 +257,8 @@ void TimerQueryFenceFactory::endTimeElapsedQuery(OpenGLDriver&, GLTimerQuery* tq
            platform.waitFence(fence, FENCE_WAIT_FOR_EVER);
            int64_t const now = clock::now().time_since_epoch().count();
            state->elapsed.store(now - state->then, std::memory_order_relaxed);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-            FILAMENT_TRACING_ASYNC_END(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "OpenGLTimerQueryFence", intptr_t(state.get()));
+            SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+            SYSTRACE_ASYNC_END("OpenGLTimerQueryFence", intptr_t(state.get()));
        }
        platform.destroyFence(fence);
    });
@@ -23,22 +23,20 @@
 #include "OpenGLDriver.h"

 #include <iterator>
-#include <optional>
 #include <private/backend/BackendUtils.h>

 #include <backend/DriverEnums.h>
 #include <backend/Program.h>

-#include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
+#include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/CString.h>
+#include <utils/debug.h>
 #include <utils/FixedCapacityVector.h>
 #include <utils/JobSystem.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
-#include <utils/Panic.h>
-#include <utils/compiler.h>
-#include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
+#include <utils/Panic.h>
+#include <utils/Systrace.h>

 #include <algorithm>
 #include <array>
@@ -65,9 +63,9 @@ static std::string to_string(bool const b) { return b ? "true" : "false"; }
 static std::string to_string(int const i) { return std::to_string(i); }
 static std::string to_string(float const f) { return "float(" + std::to_string(f) + ")"; }

-static void logCompilationError(ShaderStage shaderType, const char* name, GLuint shaderId,
-        CString const& sourceCode) noexcept;
-static void logProgramLinkError(char const* name, GLuint program) noexcept;
+static void logCompilationError(io::ostream& out, ShaderStage shaderType, const char* name,
+        GLuint shaderId, CString const& sourceCode) noexcept;
+static void logProgramLinkError(io::ostream& out, char const* name, GLuint program) noexcept;

 static void process_GOOGLE_cpp_style_line_directive(OpenGLContext const& context, char* source,
        size_t len) noexcept;
@@ -111,17 +109,7 @@ struct ShaderCompilerService::OpenGLProgramToken : ProgramToken {
        cond.wait(l, [this] { return signaled; });
    }

-    // This is invoked upon token completion, which occurs after a successful `gl.program`
-    // population or upon cancellation. In either scenario, the callback handle must be submitted
-    // to notify the caller that resource loading has concluded.
-    void trySubmittingCallback() noexcept {
-        if (handle) {
-            compiler.submitCallbackHandle(*handle);
-            handle = std::nullopt;
-        }
-    }
-
-    std::optional<CallbackManager::Handle> handle{};
+    CallbackManager::Handle handle{};
    BlobCacheKey key;

    // Used for the `THREAD_POOL` mode.
@@ -131,7 +119,7 @@ struct ShaderCompilerService::OpenGLProgramToken : ProgramToken {
 };

 ShaderCompilerService::OpenGLProgramToken::~OpenGLProgramToken() {
-    trySubmittingCallback();
+    compiler.submitCallbackHandle(handle);
 }

 /* static */ void ShaderCompilerService::setUserData(const program_token_t& token,
@@ -350,7 +338,7 @@ GLuint ShaderCompilerService::getProgram(program_token_t& token) {

    // Cleanup the token.
    token->compiler.cancelTickOp(token);
-    token = nullptr; // This will try submitting a callback handle to the callback manager.
+    token = nullptr;// This will submit a callback condition (handle) to the callback manager.
 }

 void ShaderCompilerService::tick() {
@@ -379,7 +367,7 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::notifyWhenAllProgramsAreReady(

 GLuint ShaderCompilerService::initialize(program_token_t& token) {

-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    assert_invariant(token);// This function should be called when the token is still alive.

@@ -403,7 +391,7 @@ GLuint ShaderCompilerService::initialize(program_token_t& token) {

    // Cleanup the token.
    token->compiler.cancelTickOp(token);
-    token = nullptr;
+    token = nullptr;// This will submit a callback condition (handle) to the callback manager.

    return program;
 }
@@ -433,9 +421,8 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::ensureTokenIsReady(program_token_t const& token) {
            // just log warnings here instead of repeatedly checking compile status. If this turns
            // out to be a real issue later, we would need to consider doing the canonical way.
            if (!isCompileCompleted(token)) {
-                LOG(WARNING)
-                        << "Shader compilation for OpenGL program " << token->name.c_str_safe()
-                        << " is not completed yet. The following program link may not succeed.";
+                slog.w << "Shader compilation for OpenGL program " << token->name.c_str_safe()
+                       << " is not completed yet. The following program link may not succeed.";
            }

            linkProgram(mDriver.getContext(), token);
@@ -467,8 +454,8 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::runAtNextTick(CompilerPriorityQueue priority,
            });
    ops.emplace(pos, priority, token, std::move(job));

-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "ShaderCompilerService Jobs", mRunAtNextTickOps.size());
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_VALUE32("ShaderCompilerService Jobs", mRunAtNextTickOps.size());
 }

 bool ShaderCompilerService::cancelTickOp(program_token_t const& token) noexcept {
@@ -481,8 +468,8 @@ bool ShaderCompilerService::cancelTickOp(program_token_t const& token) noexcept
        ops.erase(pos);
        return true;
    }
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "ShaderCompilerService Jobs", ops.size());
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_VALUE32("ShaderCompilerService Jobs", ops.size());
    return false;
 }

@@ -498,15 +485,15 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {
            ++it;
        }
    }
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_VALUE(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, "ShaderCompilerService Jobs", ops.size());
+    SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
+    SYSTRACE_VALUE32("ShaderCompilerService Jobs", ops.size());
 }

 /* static */ void ShaderCompilerService::compileShaders(OpenGLContext& context,
        Program::ShaderSource shadersSource,
        FixedCapacityVector<Program::SpecializationConstant> const& specializationConstants,
        bool multiview, program_token_t const& token) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    auto const appendSpecConstantString = +[](std::string& s, Program::SpecializationConstant const& sc) {
        s += "#define SPIRV_CROSS_CONSTANT_ID_" + std::to_string(sc.id) + ' ';
@@ -629,7 +616,7 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {
 }

 /* static */ void ShaderCompilerService::checkCompileStatus(program_token_t const& token) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    UTILS_NOUNROLL
    for (size_t i = 0; i < Program::SHADER_TYPE_COUNT; i++) {
@@ -645,13 +632,14 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {
        }
        // Something went wrong. Log the error message.
        const ShaderStage type = static_cast<ShaderStage>(i);
-        logCompilationError(type, token->name.c_str_safe(), shader, token->shaderSourceCode[i]);
+        logCompilationError(slog.e, type, token->name.c_str_safe(), shader,
+                token->shaderSourceCode[i]);
    }
 }

 /* static */ void ShaderCompilerService::linkProgram(OpenGLContext const& context,
        program_token_t const& token) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();

    // Shader compilation should be completed by now. Check the status and log errors on failure.
    checkCompileStatus(token);
@@ -670,7 +658,6 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {
    }
    glLinkProgram(program);
    token->gl.program = program;
-    token->trySubmittingCallback();
 }

 /* static */ bool ShaderCompilerService::isLinkCompleted(program_token_t const& token) noexcept {
@@ -688,7 +675,7 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {

 /* static */ bool ShaderCompilerService::checkLinkStatusAndCleanupShaders(
        program_token_t const& token) noexcept {
-    FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT);
+    SYSTRACE_CALL();
    assert_invariant(token->gl.program);

    bool linked = true;
@@ -697,7 +684,7 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {
    glGetProgramiv(token->gl.program, GL_LINK_STATUS, &status);
    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(status != GL_TRUE)) {
        // Something went wrong. Log the error message.
-        logProgramLinkError(token->name.c_str_safe(), token->gl.program);
+        logProgramLinkError(slog.e, token->name.c_str_safe(), token->gl.program);
        linked = false;
    }
    // No need to keep the shaders around regardless of the result of the program linking.
@@ -747,7 +734,7 @@ void ShaderCompilerService::executeTickOps() noexcept {
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-/* static */ void logCompilationError(ShaderStage shaderType, const char* name,
+/* static */ void logCompilationError(io::ostream& out, ShaderStage shaderType, const char* name,
        GLuint const shaderId, UTILS_UNUSED_IN_RELEASE CString const& sourceCode) noexcept {

    { // scope for the temporary string storage
@@ -769,9 +756,8 @@ UTILS_NOINLINE
        CString infoLog(length);
        glGetShaderInfoLog(shaderId, length, nullptr, infoLog.data());

-        LOG(ERROR) << "Compilation error in " << to_string(shaderType) << " shader \"" << name
-                   << "\":";
-        LOG(ERROR) << "\"" << infoLog.c_str() << "\"";
+        out << "Compilation error in " << to_string(shaderType) << " shader \"" << name << "\":\n"
+            << "\"" << infoLog.c_str() << "\"" << io::endl;
    }

 #ifndef NDEBUG
@@ -786,25 +772,26 @@ UTILS_NOINLINE
        } else {
            line = shader.substr(start, end - start);
        }
-        LOG(ERROR) << lc++ << ":   " << line.c_str();
+        out << lc++ << ":   " << line.c_str() << '\n';
        if (end == std::string::npos) {
            break;
        }
        start = end + 1;
    }
-    LOG(ERROR) << "";
+    out << io::endl;
 #endif
 }

 UTILS_NOINLINE
-/* static */ void logProgramLinkError(char const* name, GLuint program) noexcept {
+/* static */ void logProgramLinkError(io::ostream& out, char const* name, GLuint program) noexcept {
    GLint length = 0;
    glGetProgramiv(program, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &length);

    CString infoLog(length);
    glGetProgramInfoLog(program, length, nullptr, infoLog.data());

-    LOG(ERROR) << "Link error in \"" << name << "\":\n" << "\"" << infoLog.c_str() << "\"";
+    out << "Link error in \"" << name << "\":\n"
+        << "\"" << infoLog.c_str() << "\"" << io::endl;
 }

 // If usages of the Google-style line directive are present, remove them, as some
@@ -70,9 +70,6 @@ PFNGLMAXSHADERCOMPILERTHREADSKHRPROC glMaxShaderCompilerThreadsKHR;
 #ifdef GL_OVR_multiview
 PFNGLFRAMEBUFFERTEXTUREMULTIVIEWOVRPROC glFramebufferTextureMultiviewOVR;
 #endif
-#ifdef GL_OVR_multiview_multisampled_render_to_texture
-PFNGLFRAMEBUFFERTEXTUREMULTISAMPLEMULTIVIEWOVRPROC glFramebufferTextureMultisampleMultiviewOVR;
-#endif

 #if defined(__ANDROID__) && !defined(FILAMENT_SILENCE_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_ES2)
 // On Android, If we want to support a build system less than ANDROID_API 21, we need to
@@ -126,9 +123,6 @@ void importGLESExtensionsEntryPoints() {
 #ifdef GL_OVR_multiview
        getProcAddress(glFramebufferTextureMultiviewOVR, "glFramebufferTextureMultiviewOVR");
 #endif
-#ifdef GL_OVR_multiview_multisampled_render_to_texture
-        getProcAddress(glFramebufferTextureMultisampleMultiviewOVR, "glFramebufferTextureMultisampleMultiviewOVR");
-#endif
 #if defined(__ANDROID__) && !defined(FILAMENT_SILENCE_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_ES2)
        getProcAddress(glDispatchCompute, "glDispatchCompute");
 #endif
@@ -154,9 +154,6 @@ extern PFNGLMAXSHADERCOMPILERTHREADSKHRPROC glMaxShaderCompilerThreadsKHR;
 #ifdef GL_OVR_multiview
 extern PFNGLFRAMEBUFFERTEXTUREMULTIVIEWOVRPROC glFramebufferTextureMultiviewOVR;
 #endif
-#ifdef GL_OVR_multiview_multisampled_render_to_texture
-extern PFNGLFRAMEBUFFERTEXTUREMULTISAMPLEMULTIVIEWOVRPROC glFramebufferTextureMultisampleMultiviewOVR;
-#endif
 #if defined(__ANDROID__) && !defined(FILAMENT_SILENCE_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_ES2)
 extern PFNGLDISPATCHCOMPUTEPROC glDispatchCompute;
 #endif
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ CocoaExternalImage::SharedGl::~SharedGl() noexcept {
 CocoaExternalImage::CocoaExternalImage(const CVOpenGLTextureCacheRef textureCache,
        const SharedGl &sharedGl) noexcept : mSharedGl(sharedGl), mTextureCache(textureCache) {
    glGenFramebuffers(1, &mFBO);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 CocoaExternalImage::~CocoaExternalImage() noexcept {
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ bool CocoaExternalImage::set(CVPixelBufferRef image) noexcept {
    mTexture = createTextureFromImage(image);
    mRgbaTexture = encodeCopyRectangleToTexture2D(CVOpenGLTextureGetName(mTexture),
            CVPixelBufferGetWidth(image), CVPixelBufferGetHeight(image));
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    return true;
 }
@@ -182,33 +182,33 @@ GLuint CocoaExternalImage::encodeCopyRectangleToTexture2D(GLuint rectangle,
    // Create a texture to hold the result of the blit image.
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
    glTexStorage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 1, GL_RGBA8, width, height);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    // source textures
    glBindSampler(0, mSharedGl.sampler);
    glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE, rectangle);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    // destination texture
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, mFBO);
    glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture, 0);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_FRAMEBUFFER)
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    // draw
    glViewport(0, 0, width, height);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    glUseProgram(mSharedGl.program);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
    glDisableVertexAttribArray(0);
    glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3);
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    mState.restore();
-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    return texture;
 }
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ CocoaTouchExternalImage::CocoaTouchExternalImage(const CVOpenGLESTextureCacheRef

    glGenFramebuffers(1, &mFBO);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
 }

 CocoaTouchExternalImage::~CocoaTouchExternalImage() noexcept {
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ GLuint CocoaTouchExternalImage::encodeColorConversionPass(GLuint yPlaneTexture,
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
    glTexStorage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 1, GL_RGBA8, width, height);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    // source textures
    glBindSampler(0, mSharedGl.sampler);
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ GLuint CocoaTouchExternalImage::encodeColorConversionPass(GLuint yPlaneTexture,
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, mFBO);
    glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture, 0);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
-    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(GL_FRAMEBUFFER)
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)
+    CHECK_GL_FRAMEBUFFER_STATUS(utils::slog.e, GL_FRAMEBUFFER)

    // geometry
    glBindVertexArray(0);
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ GLuint CocoaTouchExternalImage::encodeColorConversionPass(GLuint yPlaneTexture,
    glUseProgram(mSharedGl.program);
    glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3);

-    CHECK_GL_ERROR()
+    CHECK_GL_ERROR(utils::slog.e)

    mState.restore();

@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@

 #include <backend/Platform.h>

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>

 #if __has_include(<android/surface_texture.h>)
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ void ExternalStreamManagerAndroid::destroy(ExternalStreamManagerAndroid* pExtern
 ExternalStreamManagerAndroid::ExternalStreamManagerAndroid() noexcept
        : mVm(VirtualMachineEnv::get()) {
    if (__builtin_available(android 28, *)) {
-        DLOG(INFO) << "Using ASurfaceTexture";
+        slog.d << "Using ASurfaceTexture" << io::endl;
    }
 }

@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void PlatformCocoaGL::destroySwapChain(Platform::SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept
 }

 bool PlatformCocoaGL::makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    ASSERT_PRECONDITION_NON_FATAL(drawSwapChain == readSwapChain,
            "ContextManagerCocoa does not support using distinct draw/read swap chains.");
    CocoaGLSwapChain* swapChain = (CocoaGLSwapChain*)drawSwapChain;
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ uint32_t PlatformCocoaTouchGL::getDefaultFramebufferObject() noexcept {
 }

 bool PlatformCocoaTouchGL::makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    ASSERT_PRECONDITION_NON_FATAL(drawSwapChain == readSwapChain,
            "PlatformCocoaTouchGL does not support using distinct draw/read swap chains.");
    CAEAGLLayer* const glLayer = (__bridge CAEAGLLayer*) drawSwapChain;
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 #endif
 #include <utils/compiler.h>

-#include <utils/Invocable.h>
-#include <utils/Logger.h>
 #include <utils/debug.h>
+#include <utils/Invocable.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>

 #include <algorithm>
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void PlatformEGL::logEglError(const char* name) noexcept {
 }

 void PlatformEGL::logEglError(const char* name, EGLint error) noexcept {
-    LOG(ERROR) << name << " failed with " << getEglErrorName(error);
+    slog.e << name << " failed with " << getEglErrorName(error) << io::endl;
 }

 const char* PlatformEGL::getEglErrorName(EGLint error) noexcept {
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ void PlatformEGL::clearGlError() noexcept {
    // clear GL error that may have been set by previous calls
    GLenum const error = glGetError();
    if (error != GL_NO_ERROR) {
-        LOG(WARNING) << "Ignoring pending GL error " << io::hex << error;
+        slog.w << "Ignoring pending GL error " << io::hex << error << io::endl;
    }
 }

@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Driver* PlatformEGL::createDriver(void* sharedContext, const DriverConfig& drive
    }

    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(!initialized)) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "eglInitialize failed";
+        slog.e << "eglInitialize failed" << io::endl;
        return nullptr;
    }

@@ -577,18 +577,18 @@ OpenGLPlatform::ContextType PlatformEGL::getCurrentContextType() const noexcept
 }

 bool PlatformEGL::makeCurrent(ContextType type,
-        SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* drawSwapChain, SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    SwapChainEGL const* const dsc = static_cast<SwapChainEGL const*>(drawSwapChain);
    SwapChainEGL const* const rsc = static_cast<SwapChainEGL const*>(readSwapChain);
    EGLContext context = getContextForType(type);
    EGLBoolean const success = egl.makeCurrent(context, dsc->sur, rsc->sur);
-    return success == EGL_TRUE;
+    return success == EGL_TRUE ? true : false;
 }

 void PlatformEGL::makeCurrent(SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
        SwapChain* readSwapChain,
        Invocable<void()> preContextChange,
-        Invocable<void(size_t index)> postContextChange) {
+        Invocable<void(size_t index)> postContextChange) noexcept {

    assert_invariant(drawSwapChain);
    assert_invariant(readSwapChain);
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ void PlatformEGL::Config::erase(EGLint name) noexcept {
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 EGLBoolean PlatformEGL::EGL::makeCurrent(EGLContext context, EGLSurface drawSurface,
-        EGLSurface readSurface) {
+        EGLSurface readSurface) noexcept {
    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY((
            mCurrentContext != context ||
            drawSurface != mCurrentDrawSurface || readSurface != mCurrentReadSurface))) {
@@ -29,12 +29,13 @@
 #include <android/native_window.h>
 #include <android/hardware_buffer.h>

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
-#include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/android/PerformanceHintManager.h>
-#include <utils/compiler.h>
+
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>
+#include <utils/Panic.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
+#include <utils/compiler.h>
 #include <utils/ostream.h>

 #include <EGL/egl.h>
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ static constexpr const std::string_view kNativeWindowInvalidMsg =

 bool PlatformEGLAndroid::makeCurrent(ContextType type,
        SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {

    // fast & safe path
    if (UTILS_LIKELY(!mAssertNativeWindowIsValid)) {
@@ -254,7 +255,6 @@ Platform::ExternalImageHandle PlatformEGLAndroid::createExternalImage(AHardwareB
        p->height = hardwareBufferDescription.height;
        p->width = hardwareBufferDescription.width;
        auto textureFormat = mapToFilamentFormat(hardwareBufferDescription.format, sRGB);
-        p->format = textureFormat;
        p->usage = mapToFilamentUsage(hardwareBufferDescription.usage, textureFormat);
        return ExternalImageHandle{ p };
    }
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ bool PlatformEGLAndroid::setImage(ExternalImageEGLAndroid const* eglExternalImag
            EGL_NATIVE_BUFFER_ANDROID, clientBuffer, imageAttrs);
    if (eglImage == EGL_NO_IMAGE_KHR) {
        // Handle error
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to create EGL image";
+        slog.e << "Failed to create EGL image" << io::endl;
        glDeleteTextures(1, &texture->id);
        return false;
    }
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ bool PlatformEGLAndroid::setImage(ExternalImageEGLAndroid const* eglExternalImag
    glBindTexture(texture->target, texture->id);
    GLenum error = glGetError();
    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(error != GL_NO_ERROR)) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Error after glBindTexture: " << error;
+        slog.e << "Error after glBindTexture: " << error << io::endl;
        glDeleteTextures(1, &texture->id);
        eglDestroyImageKHR(eglGetCurrentDisplay(), eglImage);
        glActiveTexture(prevActiveTexture);
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ bool PlatformEGLAndroid::setImage(ExternalImageEGLAndroid const* eglExternalImag
    glEGLImageTargetTexture2DOES(texture->target, static_cast<GLeglImageOES>(eglImage));
    error = glGetError();
    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(error != GL_NO_ERROR)) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Error after glEGLImageTargetTexture2DOES: " << error;
+        slog.e << "Error after glEGLImageTargetTexture2DOES: " << error << io::endl;
        glDeleteTextures(1, &texture->id);
        eglDestroyImageKHR(eglGetCurrentDisplay(), eglImage);
        glActiveTexture(prevActiveTexture);
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ AcquiredImage PlatformEGLAndroid::transformAcquiredImage(AcquiredImage source) n

    EGLClientBuffer clientBuffer = eglGetNativeClientBufferANDROID(pHardwareBuffer);
    if (!clientBuffer) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Unable to get EGLClientBuffer from AHardwareBuffer.";
+        slog.e << "Unable to get EGLClientBuffer from AHardwareBuffer." << io::endl;
        return {};
    }

@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ AcquiredImage PlatformEGLAndroid::transformAcquiredImage(AcquiredImage source) n
    EGLImageKHR eglImage = eglCreateImageKHR(mEGLDisplay,
            EGL_NO_CONTEXT, EGL_NATIVE_BUFFER_ANDROID, clientBuffer, attributes.data());
    if (eglImage == EGL_NO_IMAGE_KHR) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "eglCreateImageKHR returned no image.";
+        slog.e << "eglCreateImageKHR returned no image." << io::endl;
        return {};
    }

@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ AcquiredImage PlatformEGLAndroid::transformAcquiredImage(AcquiredImage source) n
    auto patchedCallback = [](void* image, void* userdata) {
        Closure* closure = (Closure*)userdata;
        if (eglDestroyImageKHR(closure->display, (EGLImageKHR) image) == EGL_FALSE) {
-            LOG(ERROR) << "eglDestroyImageKHR failed.";
+            slog.e << "eglDestroyImageKHR failed." << io::endl;
        }
        closure->acquiredImage.callback(closure->acquiredImage.image, closure->acquiredImage.userData);
        delete closure;
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 #include <EGL/egl.h>
 #include <EGL/eglext.h>

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
-#include <utils/Panic.h>
 #include <utils/compiler.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
+#include <utils/Panic.h>

 using namespace utils;

@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ backend::Driver* PlatformEGLHeadless::createDriver(void* sharedContext,
        const Platform::DriverConfig& driverConfig) noexcept {
    EGLBoolean bindAPI = eglBindAPI(EGL_OPENGL_API);
    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(!bindAPI)) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "eglBindAPI EGL_OPENGL_API failed";
+        slog.e << "eglBindAPI EGL_OPENGL_API failed" << io::endl;
        return nullptr;
    }
    int bindBlueGL = bluegl::bind();
    if (UTILS_UNLIKELY(bindBlueGL != 0)) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "bluegl bind failed";
+        slog.e << "bluegl bind failed" << io::endl;
        return nullptr;
    }

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

 #include <backend/platforms/PlatformGLX.h>

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>

 #include <X11/Xlib.h>
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static PFNGLXGETPROCADDRESSPROC getProcAddress;
 static bool loadLibraries() {
    g_glx.library = dlopen(LIBRARY_GLX, RTLD_LOCAL | RTLD_NOW);
    if (!g_glx.library) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Could not find library " << LIBRARY_GLX;
+        utils::slog.e << "Could not find library " << LIBRARY_GLX << utils::io::endl;
        return false;
    }

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static bool loadLibraries() {

    g_x11.library = dlopen(LIBRARY_X11, RTLD_LOCAL | RTLD_NOW);
    if (!g_x11.library) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Could not find library " << LIBRARY_X11;
+        utils::slog.e << "Could not find library " << LIBRARY_X11 << utils::io::endl;
        return false;
    }

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Driver* PlatformGLX::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
    // Get the display device
    mGLXDisplay = g_x11.openDisplay(NULL);
    if (mGLXDisplay == nullptr) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to open X display. (exiting).";
+        utils::slog.e << "Failed to open X display. (exiting)." << utils::io::endl;
        exit(1);
    }

@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ Driver* PlatformGLX::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,

        r = g_glx.queryContext(mGLXDisplay, sharedCtx, GLX_FBCONFIG_ID, &usedFbId);
        if (r != 0) {
-            LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to get GLX_FBCONFIG_ID from shared GL context.";
+            utils::slog.e << "Failed to get GLX_FBCONFIG_ID from shared GL context."
+                          << utils::io::endl;
            return nullptr;
        }

@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ Driver* PlatformGLX::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
        GLXFBConfig* fbConfigs = g_glx.getFbConfigs(mGLXDisplay, 0, &numConfigs);

        if (fbConfigs == nullptr) {
-            LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to get the available GLXFBConfigs.";
+            utils::slog.e << "Failed to get the available GLXFBConfigs." << utils::io::endl;
            return nullptr;
        }

@@ -163,7 +164,8 @@ Driver* PlatformGLX::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
        for (int i = 0; i < numConfigs; ++i) {
            r = g_glx.getFbConfigAttrib(mGLXDisplay, fbConfigs[i], GLX_FBCONFIG_ID, &fbId);
            if (r != 0) {
-                LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to get GLX_FBCONFIG_ID for entry " << i << ".";
+                utils::slog.e << "Failed to get GLX_FBCONFIG_ID for entry " << i << "."
+                              << utils::io::endl;
                continue;
            }

@@ -174,7 +176,8 @@ Driver* PlatformGLX::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
        }

        if (fbIndex < 0) {
-            LOG(ERROR) << "Failed to find an `GLXFBConfig` with the requested ID.";
+            utils::slog.e << "Failed to find an `GLXFBConfig` with the requested ID."
+                          << utils::io::endl;
            return nullptr;
        }

@@ -199,7 +202,8 @@ Driver* PlatformGLX::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
            getProcAddress((GLubyte*)"glXCreateContextAttribsARB");

    if (glXCreateContextAttribs == nullptr) {
-        LOG(INFO) << "Unable to retrieve function pointer for `glXCreateContextAttribs()`.";
+        utils::slog.i << "Unable to retrieve function pointer for `glXCreateContextAttribs()`."
+                      << utils::io::endl;
        return nullptr;
    }

@@ -262,7 +266,7 @@ void PlatformGLX::destroySwapChain(Platform::SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept {
 }

 bool PlatformGLX::makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    g_glx.setCurrentContext(mGLXDisplay,
            (GLXDrawable)drawSwapChain, (GLXDrawable)readSwapChain, mGLXContext);
    return true;
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ void PlatformOSMesa::destroySwapChain(Platform::SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept {
 }

 bool PlatformOSMesa::makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    OSMesaAPI* api = (OSMesaAPI*) mOsMesaApi;
    OSMesaSwapchain* impl = (OSMesaSwapchain*) drawSwapChain;

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #include "GL/glext.h"
 #include "GL/wglext.h"

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>
 #include <utils/Panic.h>

 namespace {
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ void reportWindowsError(DWORD dwError) {
        0, nullptr
 	);

-    LOG(ERROR) << "Windows error code: " << dwError << ". " << lpMessageBuffer;
+    utils::slog.e << "Windows error code: " << dwError << ". " << lpMessageBuffer
+            << utils::io::endl;

    LocalFree(lpMessageBuffer);
 }
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ Driver* PlatformWGL::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
    HDC whdc = mWhdc = GetDC(mHWnd);
    if (whdc == NULL) {
        dwError = GetLastError();
-        LOG(ERROR) << "CreateWindowA() failed";
+        utils::slog.e << "CreateWindowA() failed" << utils::io::endl;
        goto error;
    }

@@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ Driver* PlatformWGL::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
    tempContext = wglCreateContext(whdc);
    if (!wglMakeCurrent(whdc, tempContext)) {
        dwError = GetLastError();
-        LOG(ERROR) << "wglMakeCurrent() failed, whdc=" << whdc << ", tempContext=" << tempContext;
+        utils::slog.e << "wglMakeCurrent() failed, whdc=" << whdc << ", tempContext=" <<
+                tempContext << utils::io::endl;
        goto error;
    }

@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ Driver* PlatformWGL::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,
    }

    if (!mContext) {
-        LOG(ERROR) << "wglCreateContextAttribs() failed, whdc=" << whdc;
+        utils::slog.e << "wglCreateContextAttribs() failed, whdc=" << whdc << utils::io::endl;
        goto error;
    }

@@ -150,7 +152,8 @@ Driver* PlatformWGL::createDriver(void* sharedGLContext,

    if (!wglMakeCurrent(whdc, mContext)) {
        dwError = GetLastError();
-        LOG(ERROR) << "wglMakeCurrent() failed, whdc=" << whdc << ", mContext=" << mContext;
+        utils::slog.e << "wglMakeCurrent() failed, whdc=" << whdc << ", mContext=" <<
+                mContext << utils::io::endl;
        goto error;
    }

@@ -259,7 +262,7 @@ void PlatformWGL::destroySwapChain(Platform::SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept {
 }

 bool PlatformWGL::makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    ASSERT_PRECONDITION_NON_FATAL(drawSwapChain == readSwapChain,
                                  "PlatformWGL does not support distinct draw/read swap chains.");

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ void PlatformWebGL::destroySwapChain(Platform::SwapChain* swapChain) noexcept {
 }

 bool PlatformWebGL::makeCurrent(ContextType type, SwapChain* drawSwapChain,
-        SwapChain* readSwapChain) {
+        SwapChain* readSwapChain) noexcept {
    return true;
 }

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ inline void blitFast(VulkanCommandBuffer* commands, VkImageAspectFlags aspect, V
        FVK_LOGD << "Fast blit from=" << src.texture->getVkImage() << ",level=" << (int) src.level
                      << " layout=" << src.getLayout()
                      << " to=" << dst.texture->getVkImage() << ",level=" << (int) dst.level
-                      << " layout=" << dst.getLayout();
+                      << " layout=" << dst.getLayout() << utils::io::endl;
    }

    VkImageSubresourceRange const srcRange = src.getSubresourceRange();
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ inline void resolveFast(VulkanCommandBuffer* commands, VkImageAspectFlags aspect
        FVK_LOGD << "Fast blit from=" << src.texture->getVkImage() << ",level=" << (int) src.level
                      << " layout=" << src.getLayout()
                      << " to=" << dst.texture->getVkImage() << ",level=" << (int) dst.level
-                      << " layout=" << dst.getLayout();
+                      << " layout=" << dst.getLayout() << utils::io::endl;
    }

    VkImageSubresourceRange const srcRange = src.getSubresourceRange();
@@ -14,72 +14,88 @@
 * limitations under the License.
 */

-#include "VulkanBufferProxy.h"
-#include "VulkanCommands.h"
+#include "VulkanBuffer.h"
 #include "VulkanMemory.h"

-#include "VulkanBufferCache.h"
-#include "VulkanMemory.h"
+#include <utils/Panic.h>

 using namespace bluevk;

 namespace filament::backend {

-VulkanBufferProxy::VulkanBufferProxy(VmaAllocator allocator, VulkanStagePool& stagePool,
-        VulkanBufferCache& bufferCache, VulkanBufferUsage usage, uint32_t numBytes)
-    : mStagePool(stagePool),
-      mBufferCache(bufferCache),
-      mBuffer(mBufferCache.acquire(usage, numBytes)),
-      mUpdatedOffset(0),
-      mUpdatedBytes(0) {}
+VulkanBuffer::VulkanBuffer(VmaAllocator allocator, VulkanStagePool& stagePool,
+        VkBufferUsageFlags usage, uint32_t numBytes)
+    : mAllocator(allocator),
+      mStagePool(stagePool),
+      mUsage(usage),
+	  mUpdatedOffset(0),
+      mUpdatedBytes(0) {
+    // for now make sure that only 1 bit is set in usage
+    // (because loadFromCpu() assumes that somewhat)
+    assert_invariant(usage && !(usage & (usage - 1)));

-void VulkanBufferProxy::loadFromCpu(VulkanCommandBuffer& commands, const void* cpuData,
-        uint32_t byteOffset, uint32_t numBytes) {
-    // Note: this should be stored within the command buffer before going out of
-    // scope, so that the command buffer can manage its lifecycle.
-    fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanStage::Segment> stage = mStagePool.acquireStage(numBytes);
-    commands.acquire(stage);
-    stage->copy(0, cpuData, numBytes);
+    // Create the VkBuffer.
+    VkBufferCreateInfo bufferInfo {
+        .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BUFFER_CREATE_INFO,
+        .size = numBytes,
+        .usage = usage | VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT
+    };
+
+    VmaAllocationCreateInfo allocInfo { .usage = VMA_MEMORY_USAGE_GPU_ONLY };
+    vmaCreateBuffer(mAllocator, &bufferInfo, &allocInfo, &mGpuBuffer, &mGpuMemory, nullptr);
+}
+
+VulkanBuffer::~VulkanBuffer() {
+    vmaDestroyBuffer(mAllocator, mGpuBuffer, mGpuMemory);
+}
+
+void VulkanBuffer::loadFromCpu(VkCommandBuffer cmdbuf, const void* cpuData, uint32_t byteOffset,
+        uint32_t numBytes) {
+    VulkanStage const* stage = mStagePool.acquireStage(numBytes);
+    void* mapped;
+    vmaMapMemory(mAllocator, stage->memory, &mapped);
+    memcpy(mapped, cpuData, numBytes);
+    vmaUnmapMemory(mAllocator, stage->memory);
+    vmaFlushAllocation(mAllocator, stage->memory, byteOffset, numBytes);

    // If there was a previous update, then we need to make sure the following write is properly
    // synced with the previous read.
-    if (mUpdatedBytes > 0 &&
-            (byteOffset >= mUpdatedOffset && byteOffset <= (mUpdatedOffset + mUpdatedBytes))) {
+    if (mUpdatedBytes > 0) {
        VkAccessFlags srcAccess = 0;
        VkPipelineStageFlags srcStage = 0;
-        if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::UNIFORM) {
+        if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_BIT) {
            srcAccess = VK_ACCESS_SHADER_READ_BIT;
            srcStage = VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_SHADER_BIT | VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADER_BIT;
-        } else if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::VERTEX) {
+        } else if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_VERTEX_BUFFER_BIT) {
            srcAccess = VK_ACCESS_VERTEX_ATTRIBUTE_READ_BIT;
            srcStage = VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT;
-        } else if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::INDEX) {
+        } else if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_INDEX_BUFFER_BIT) {
            srcAccess = VK_ACCESS_INDEX_READ_BIT;
            srcStage = VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT;
        }

-        VkBufferMemoryBarrier barrier = {
+        VkBufferMemoryBarrier barrier{
            .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BUFFER_MEMORY_BARRIER,
            .srcAccessMask = srcAccess,
            .dstAccessMask = VK_ACCESS_TRANSFER_WRITE_BIT,
            .srcQueueFamilyIndex = VK_QUEUE_FAMILY_IGNORED,
            .dstQueueFamilyIndex = VK_QUEUE_FAMILY_IGNORED,
-            .buffer = getVkBuffer(),
-            .offset = byteOffset,
-            .size = numBytes,
+            .buffer = mGpuBuffer,
+			.offset = mUpdatedOffset,
+            .size = mUpdatedBytes,
        };
-        vkCmdPipelineBarrier(commands.buffer(), srcStage, VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT, 0, 0,
-                nullptr, 1, &barrier, 0, nullptr);
+        vkCmdPipelineBarrier(cmdbuf, srcStage, VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT, 0, 0, nullptr, 1,
+                &barrier, 0, nullptr);
    }

-    VkBufferCopy region = {
-        .srcOffset = stage->offset(),
-        .dstOffset = byteOffset,
-        .size = numBytes,
+    VkBufferCopy region {
+            .srcOffset = 0,
+            .dstOffset = byteOffset,
+            .size = numBytes,
    };
-    vkCmdCopyBuffer(commands.buffer(), stage->buffer(), getVkBuffer(), 1, &region);
+    vkCmdCopyBuffer(cmdbuf, stage->buffer, mGpuBuffer, 1, &region);

-    mUpdatedOffset = byteOffset;
+	mUpdatedOffset = byteOffset;
    mUpdatedBytes = numBytes;

    // Firstly, ensure that the copy finishes before the next draw call.
@@ -89,40 +105,32 @@ void VulkanBufferProxy::loadFromCpu(VulkanCommandBuffer& commands, const void* c
    VkAccessFlags dstAccessMask = VK_ACCESS_TRANSFER_WRITE_BIT;
    VkPipelineStageFlags dstStageMask = VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT;

-    if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::VERTEX) {
+    if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_VERTEX_BUFFER_BIT) {
        dstAccessMask |= VK_ACCESS_VERTEX_ATTRIBUTE_READ_BIT;
        dstStageMask |= VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT;
-    } else if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::INDEX) {
+    } else if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_INDEX_BUFFER_BIT) {
        dstAccessMask |= VK_ACCESS_INDEX_READ_BIT;
        dstStageMask |= VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT;
-    } else if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::UNIFORM) {
-        dstAccessMask |= VK_ACCESS_SHADER_READ_BIT;
-        dstStageMask |= VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADER_BIT | VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_SHADER_BIT;
-    } else if (getUsage() == VulkanBufferUsage::SHADER_STORAGE) {
+    } else if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_BIT) {
+        dstAccessMask |= VK_ACCESS_UNIFORM_READ_BIT;
+        dstStageMask |=
+                (VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_SHADER_BIT | VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADER_BIT);
+    } else if (mUsage & VK_BUFFER_USAGE_STORAGE_BUFFER_BIT) {
        // TODO: implement me
    }

-    VkBufferMemoryBarrier barrier = {
+    VkBufferMemoryBarrier barrier{
        .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BUFFER_MEMORY_BARRIER,
        .srcAccessMask = VK_ACCESS_TRANSFER_WRITE_BIT,
        .dstAccessMask = dstAccessMask,
        .srcQueueFamilyIndex = VK_QUEUE_FAMILY_IGNORED,
        .dstQueueFamilyIndex = VK_QUEUE_FAMILY_IGNORED,
-        .buffer = getVkBuffer(),
-        .offset = byteOffset,
-        .size = numBytes,
+        .buffer = mGpuBuffer,
+        .size = VK_WHOLE_SIZE,
    };

-    vkCmdPipelineBarrier(commands.buffer(), VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT, dstStageMask, 0, 0,
-            nullptr, 1, &barrier, 0, nullptr);
+    vkCmdPipelineBarrier(cmdbuf, VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT, dstStageMask, 0, 0, nullptr, 1,
+            &barrier, 0, nullptr);
 }

-VkBuffer VulkanBufferProxy::getVkBuffer() const noexcept {
-    return mBuffer->getGpuBuffer()->vkbuffer;
-}
-
-VulkanBufferUsage VulkanBufferProxy::getUsage() const noexcept {
-    return mBuffer->getGpuBuffer()->usage;
-}
-
-}// namespace filament::backend
+} // namespace filament::backend
@@ -17,36 +17,35 @@
 #ifndef TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFER_H
 #define TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFER_H

+#include "VulkanContext.h"
+#include "VulkanStagePool.h"
 #include "VulkanMemory.h"
-#include "memory/Resource.h"
-
-#include <functional>

 namespace filament::backend {

-class VulkanBuffer : public fvkmemory::Resource {
+// Encapsulates a Vulkan buffer, its attached DeviceMemory and a staging area.
+class VulkanBuffer {
 public:
-    // Because we need to recycle the unused `VulkanGpuBuffer`, we allow for a callback that the
-    // "Pool" can use to acquire the buffer back.
-    using OnRecycle = std::function<void(VulkanGpuBuffer const*)>;
-
-    VulkanBuffer(VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer, OnRecycle&& onRecycleFn)
-        : mGpuBuffer(gpuBuffer),
-          mOnRecycleFn(onRecycleFn) {}
-
-    ~VulkanBuffer() {
-        if (mOnRecycleFn) {
-            mOnRecycleFn(mGpuBuffer);
-        }
+    VulkanBuffer(VmaAllocator allocator, VulkanStagePool& stagePool, VkBufferUsageFlags usage,
+            uint32_t numBytes);
+    ~VulkanBuffer();
+    void loadFromCpu(VkCommandBuffer cmdbuf, const void* cpuData, uint32_t byteOffset,
+            uint32_t numBytes);
+    VkBuffer getGpuBuffer() const {
+        return mGpuBuffer;
    }

-    VulkanGpuBuffer const* getGpuBuffer() const { return mGpuBuffer; }
-
 private:
-    VulkanGpuBuffer const* mGpuBuffer;
-    OnRecycle mOnRecycleFn;
+    VmaAllocator mAllocator;
+    VulkanStagePool& mStagePool;
+
+    VmaAllocation mGpuMemory = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
+    VkBuffer mGpuBuffer = VK_NULL_HANDLE;
+    VkBufferUsageFlags mUsage = {};
+	uint32_t mUpdatedOffset = 0;
+    uint32_t mUpdatedBytes = 0;
 };

-}// namespace filament::backend
+} // namespace filament::backend

-#endif// TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFER_H
+#endif // TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFER_H
@@ -1,207 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2025 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-#include "VulkanBufferCache.h"
-
-#include "VulkanBuffer.h"
-#include "VulkanConstants.h"
-#include "VulkanMemory.h"
-#include "memory/Resource.h"
-#include "memory/ResourceManager.h"
-
-#include <utility>
-
-namespace filament::backend {
-
-namespace {
-
-VkBufferUsageFlags getVkBufferUsage(VulkanBufferUsage usage) {
-    switch (usage) {
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::VERTEX:
-            return VK_BUFFER_USAGE_VERTEX_BUFFER_BIT;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::INDEX:
-            return VK_BUFFER_USAGE_INDEX_BUFFER_BIT;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::UNIFORM:
-            return VK_BUFFER_USAGE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_BIT;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::SHADER_STORAGE:
-            return VK_BUFFER_USAGE_STORAGE_BUFFER_BIT;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::UNKNOWN:
-            return 0;
-    }
-
-    return 0;
-}
-
-}// namespace
-
-VulkanBufferCache::VulkanBufferCache(VulkanContext const& context,
-        fvkmemory::ResourceManager& resourceManager, VmaAllocator allocator)
-    : mContext(context),
-      mResourceManager(resourceManager),
-      mAllocator(allocator) {}
-
-fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBuffer> VulkanBufferCache::acquire(VulkanBufferUsage usage,
-        uint32_t numBytes) noexcept {
-    assert_invariant(usage != VulkanBufferUsage::UNKNOWN);
-
-    BufferPool& bufferPool = getPool(usage);
-
-    // First check if an allocation exists whose capacity is greater than or equal to the requested
-    // size.
-    auto iter = bufferPool.lower_bound(numBytes);
-    if (iter != bufferPool.end()) {
-        VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer = iter->second.gpuBuffer;
-        bufferPool.erase(iter);
-        return fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBuffer>::construct(&mResourceManager, gpuBuffer,
-                [this](VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer) { this->release(gpuBuffer); });
-    }
-
-    // We were not able to find a sufficiently large allocation, so create a new one that is
-    // recycled after being yielded.
-    VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer = allocate(usage, numBytes);
-    return fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBuffer>::construct(&mResourceManager, gpuBuffer,
-            [this](VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer) { this->release(gpuBuffer); });
-}
-
-void VulkanBufferCache::gc() noexcept {
-    FVK_SYSTRACE_CONTEXT();
-    FVK_SYSTRACE_START("VulkanBufferCache::gc");
-
-    // If this is one of the first few frames, return early to avoid wrapping unsigned integers.
-    constexpr uint32_t TIME_BEFORE_EVICTION = 3;
-    if (++mCurrentFrame <= TIME_BEFORE_EVICTION) {
-        return;
-    }
-    const uint64_t evictionTime = mCurrentFrame - TIME_BEFORE_EVICTION;
-
-    // Destroy buffers that have not been used for several frames.
-    for (auto& bufferPool: mGpuBufferPools) {
-        for (auto poolIter = bufferPool.begin(); poolIter != bufferPool.end();) {
-            if (poolIter->second.lastAccessed < evictionTime) {
-#if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_VULKAN_BUFFER_CACHE)
-                FVK_LOGD << "VulkanBufferCache - Destroyed vkBuffer "
-                         << poolIter->second.gpuBuffer->vkbuffer << " with usage "
-                         << static_cast<int>(poolIter->second.gpuBuffer->usage) << utils::io::endl;
-#endif// FVK_DEBUG_VULKAN_BUFFER_CACHE
-
-                destroy(poolIter->second.gpuBuffer);
-                poolIter = bufferPool.erase(poolIter);
-            } else {
-                ++poolIter;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    FVK_SYSTRACE_END();
-}
-
-void VulkanBufferCache::terminate() noexcept {
-    for (auto& bufferPool: mGpuBufferPools) {
-        for (auto& poolEntry: bufferPool) {
-            destroy(poolEntry.second.gpuBuffer);
-        }
-        bufferPool.clear();
-    }
-}
-
-void VulkanBufferCache::release(VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer) noexcept {
-    assert_invariant(gpuBuffer != nullptr);
-
-    BufferPool& bufferPool = getPool(gpuBuffer->usage);
-    bufferPool.insert(std::make_pair(gpuBuffer->numBytes, UnusedGpuBuffer{
-                                                              .lastAccessed = mCurrentFrame,
-                                                              .gpuBuffer = gpuBuffer,
-                                                          }));
-}
-
-VulkanGpuBuffer const* VulkanBufferCache::allocate(VulkanBufferUsage usage,
-        uint32_t numBytes) noexcept {
-    VkBufferCreateInfo const bufferInfo{
-        .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BUFFER_CREATE_INFO,
-        .size = numBytes,
-        // `VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT` is needed to allow updating the buffer through
-        // a staging using `vkCmdCopyBuffer`.
-        .usage = getVkBufferUsage(usage) | VK_BUFFER_USAGE_TRANSFER_DST_BIT,
-    };
-
-    VmaAllocationCreateFlags vmaFlags = 0;
-    if (usage == VulkanBufferUsage::UNIFORM) {
-        // In the case of UMA, the uniform buffers will always be mappable
-        if (mContext.isUnifiedMemoryArchitecture()) {
-            vmaFlags |= VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_MAPPED_BIT |
-                        VMA_ALLOCATION_CREATE_HOST_ACCESS_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_BIT;
-        }
-    }
-
-    VulkanGpuBuffer* gpuBuffer = new VulkanGpuBuffer{
-        .numBytes = numBytes,
-        .usage = usage,
-    };
-    VmaAllocationCreateInfo const allocInfo{
-        .flags = vmaFlags,
-        .usage = VMA_MEMORY_USAGE_AUTO,
-        .requiredFlags = VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT,
-    };
-    UTILS_UNUSED_IN_RELEASE VkResult result = vmaCreateBuffer(mAllocator, &bufferInfo, &allocInfo,
-            &gpuBuffer->vkbuffer, &gpuBuffer->vmaAllocation, &gpuBuffer->allocationInfo);
-
-#if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_VULKAN_BUFFER_CACHE)
-    if (result != VK_SUCCESS) {
-        FVK_LOGE << "VulkanBufferCache - failed to allocate a new vkBuffer of size " << numBytes
-                 << " and usage " << static_cast<int>(usage) << ", error: " << result
-                 << utils::io::endl;
-    } else {
-        FVK_LOGD << "VulkanBufferCache - allocated a vkBuffer " << gpuBuffer->vkbuffer
-                 << " of size " << numBytes << " and usage = " << static_cast<int>(usage)
-                 << "  successfully" << utils::io::endl;
-    }
-#endif// FVK_DEBUG_VULKAN_BUFFER_CACHE
-
-    return gpuBuffer;
-}
-
-void VulkanBufferCache::destroy(VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer) noexcept {
-    vmaDestroyBuffer(mAllocator, gpuBuffer->vkbuffer, gpuBuffer->vmaAllocation);
-    delete gpuBuffer;
-    gpuBuffer = nullptr;
-}
-
-VulkanBufferCache::BufferPool& VulkanBufferCache::getPool(VulkanBufferUsage usage) noexcept {
-
-    int poolIndex = -1;
-    switch (usage) {
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::VERTEX:
-            poolIndex = 0;
-            break;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::INDEX:
-            poolIndex = 1;
-            break;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::UNIFORM:
-            poolIndex = 2;
-            break;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::SHADER_STORAGE:
-            poolIndex = 3;
-            break;
-        case VulkanBufferUsage::UNKNOWN:
-            PANIC_LOG("There's no pool for buffers with unkown usage.");
-            break;
-    }
-
-    assert_invariant(poolIndex >= 0 && poolIndex < MAX_POOL_COUNT);
-    return mGpuBufferPools[poolIndex];
-}
-
-}// namespace filament::backend
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2025 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-#ifndef TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFERCACHE_H
-#define TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFERCACHE_H
-
-#include "VulkanBuffer.h"
-#include "VulkanContext.h"
-#include "VulkanMemory.h"
-#include "memory/Resource.h"
-#include "memory/ResourceManager.h"
-
-#include <map>
-
-namespace filament::backend {
-
-class VulkanBufferCache {
-public:
-    VulkanBufferCache(VulkanContext const& context, fvkmemory::ResourceManager& resourceManager,
-            VmaAllocator allocator);
-
-    // `VulkanBufferCache` is not copyable.
-    VulkanBufferCache(const VulkanBufferCache&) = delete;
-    VulkanBufferCache& operator=(const VulkanBufferCache&) = delete;
-
-    // Allocates or reuse a new VkBuffer that is device local.
-    // In the case of Unified memory architecture, uniform buffers are also host visible.
-    fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBuffer> acquire(VulkanBufferUsage usage,
-            uint32_t numBytes) noexcept;
-
-    // Evicts old unused `VulkanGpuBuffer` and bumps the current frame number
-    void gc() noexcept;
-
-    // Destroys all unused `VulkanGpuBuffer`.
-    // This should be called while the context's VkDevice is still alive.
-    void terminate() noexcept;
-
-private:
-    struct UnusedGpuBuffer {
-        uint64_t lastAccessed;
-        VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer;
-    };
-
-    using BufferPool = std::multimap<uint32_t, UnusedGpuBuffer>;
-
-    // Return a `VulkanGpuBuffer` back to its corresponding pool
-    void release(VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer) noexcept;
-
-    // Allocate a new VkBuffer from the VMA pool of the corresponding `numBytes` and `usage`.
-    VulkanGpuBuffer const* allocate(VulkanBufferUsage usage, uint32_t numBytes) noexcept;
-
-    // Destroy the corresponding VkBuffer and return the VkDeviceMemory to the VMA pool.
-    void destroy(VulkanGpuBuffer const* gpuBuffer) noexcept;
-
-    BufferPool& getPool(VulkanBufferUsage usage) noexcept;
-
-    VulkanContext const& mContext;
-    fvkmemory::ResourceManager& mResourceManager;
-    VmaAllocator mAllocator;
-
-    // Buffers can be recycled, after they are released. Each type of buffer have its own pool
-    static constexpr int MAX_POOL_COUNT = 4;
-    BufferPool mGpuBufferPools[MAX_POOL_COUNT];
-
-    // Store the current "time" (really just a frame count) and LRU eviction parameters.
-    uint64_t mCurrentFrame = 0;
-};
-
-}// namespace filament::backend
-
-#endif// TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFERCACHE_H
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-#ifndef TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFERPROXY_H
-#define TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFERPROXY_H
-
-#include "VulkanBufferCache.h"
-#include "VulkanCommands.h"
-#include "VulkanContext.h"
-#include "VulkanMemory.h"
-#include "VulkanStagePool.h"
-
-namespace filament::backend {
-
-// This class acts as a dynamic wrapper for a `VulkanBuffer`. It allows you to modify the
-// `VulkanBuffer` it references at runtime, wihtout affecting any external objects.
-class VulkanBufferProxy {
-public:
-    VulkanBufferProxy(VmaAllocator allocator, VulkanStagePool& stagePool,
-            VulkanBufferCache& bufferCache, VulkanBufferUsage usage, uint32_t numBytes);
-
-    void loadFromCpu(VulkanCommandBuffer& commands, const void* cpuData, uint32_t byteOffset,
-            uint32_t numBytes);
-
-    VkBuffer getVkBuffer() const noexcept;
-
-    VulkanBufferUsage getUsage() const noexcept;
-
-private:
-    VulkanStagePool& mStagePool;
-    VulkanBufferCache& mBufferCache;
-
-    fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBuffer> mBuffer;
-    uint32_t mUpdatedOffset = 0;
-    uint32_t mUpdatedBytes = 0;
-};
-
-}// namespace filament::backend
-
-#endif// TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANBUFFERPROXY_H
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ VkSemaphore VulkanCommandBuffer::submit() {
    }
    FVK_LOGI << ") "
             << " signal=" << mSubmission
-             << " fence=" << mFence;
+             << " fence=" << mFence << utils::io::endl;
 #endif

    mFenceStatus->setStatus(VK_NOT_READY);
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ VkSemaphore VulkanCommandBuffer::submit() {

 #if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_COMMAND_BUFFER)
    if (result != VK_SUCCESS) {
-        FVK_LOGD << "Failed command buffer submission result: " << result;
+        FVK_LOGD << "Failed command buffer submission result: " << result << utils::io::endl;
    }
 #endif
    assert_invariant(result == VK_SUCCESS);
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ void VulkanCommands::pushGroupMarker(char const* str, VulkanGroupMarkers::Timest
        mProtectedPool->pushMarker(str, timestamp);
    }
 #if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_PRINT_GROUP_MARKERS)
-    FVK_LOGD << "----> " << str;
+    FVK_LOGD << "----> " << str << utils::io::endl;
 #endif
 }

@@ -502,7 +502,8 @@ void VulkanCommands::popGroupMarker() {
    auto const& startTime = ret.second;
    auto const endTime = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
    std::chrono::duration<double> diff = endTime - startTime;
-    FVK_LOGD << "<---- " << marker << " elapsed: " << (diff.count() * 1000) << " ms";
+    FVK_LOGD << "<---- " << marker << " elapsed: " << (diff.count() * 1000) << " ms"
+             << utils::io::endl;
 #else
    mPool->popMarker();
 #endif // FVK_DEBUG_PRINT_GROUP_MARKERS
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #ifndef TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANCONSTANTS_H
 #define TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANCONSTANTS_H

-#include <utils/Logger.h>
+#include <utils/Log.h>

 #include <stdint.h>

@@ -73,16 +73,14 @@
 #define FVK_DEBUG_RESOURCE_LEAK           0x00010000

 // Set this to enable logging "only" to one output stream. This is useful in the case where we want
-// to debug with print statements and want ordered logging (e.g LOG(INFO) and LOG(ERROR) will not
-// appear in order of calls).
+// to debug with print statements and want ordered logging (e.g slog.i and slog.e will not appear in
+// order of calls).
 #define FVK_DEBUG_FORCE_LOG_TO_I          0x00020000

 // Enable a minimal set of traces to assess the performance of the backend.
 // All other debug features must be disabled.
 #define FVK_DEBUG_PROFILING               0x00040000

-#define FVK_DEBUG_VULKAN_BUFFER_CACHE     0x00080000
-
 // Useful default combinations
 #define FVK_DEBUG_EVERYTHING              (0xFFFFFFFF & ~FVK_DEBUG_PROFILING)
 #define FVK_DEBUG_PERFORMANCE     \
@@ -95,7 +93,7 @@
 #endif

 #ifndef NDEBUG
-#define FVK_DEBUG_FLAGS (FVK_DEBUG_PERFORMANCE | FVK_DEBUG_FORWARDED_FLAG | FVK_DEBUG_DEBUG_UTILS | FVK_DEBUG_GROUP_MARKERS | FVK_DEBUG_VALIDATION)
+#define FVK_DEBUG_FLAGS (FVK_DEBUG_PERFORMANCE | FVK_DEBUG_FORWARDED_FLAG)
 #else
 #define FVK_DEBUG_FLAGS 0
 #endif
@@ -153,13 +151,13 @@ static_assert(FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_VALIDATION));

 #elif FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_SYSTRACE)

-    #include <private/utils/Tracing.h>
-
-    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_CONTEXT()      FILAMENT_TRACING_CONTEXT(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT)
-    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_START(marker)  FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_BEGIN(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT, marker)
-    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_END()          FILAMENT_TRACING_NAME_END(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT)
-    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_SCOPE()        FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT)
-    #define FVK_PROFILE_MARKER(marker)  FILAMENT_TRACING_CALL(FILAMENT_TRACING_CATEGORY_FILAMENT)
+    #include <utils/Systrace.h>
+    
+    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_CONTEXT()      SYSTRACE_CONTEXT()
+    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_START(marker)  SYSTRACE_NAME_BEGIN(marker)
+    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_END()          SYSTRACE_NAME_END()
+    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_SCOPE()        SYSTRACE_NAME(__func__)
+    #define FVK_PROFILE_MARKER(marker)  FVK_SYSTRACE_SCOPE()

 #else
    #define FVK_SYSTRACE_CONTEXT()
@@ -174,15 +172,15 @@ static_assert(FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_VALIDATION));
 #endif

 #if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_FORCE_LOG_TO_I)
-    #define FVK_LOGI LOG(INFO)
+    #define FVK_LOGI (utils::slog.i)
    #define FVK_LOGD FVK_LOGI
    #define FVK_LOGE FVK_LOGI
    #define FVK_LOGW FVK_LOGI
 #else
-    #define FVK_LOGE LOG(ERROR)
-    #define FVK_LOGW LOG(WARNING)
-    #define FVK_LOGD DLOG(INFO)
-    #define FVK_LOGI LOG(INFO)
+    #define FVK_LOGE (utils::slog.e)
+    #define FVK_LOGW (utils::slog.w)
+    #define FVK_LOGD (utils::slog.d)
+    #define FVK_LOGI (utils::slog.i)
 #endif

 // All vkCreate* functions take an optional allocator. For now we select the default allocator by
@@ -71,23 +71,23 @@ struct VulkanRenderPass {
 struct VulkanContext {
 public:
    static uint32_t selectMemoryType(VkPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties const& memoryProperties,
-            uint32_t types, VkFlags reqs) {
+            uint32_t flags, VkFlags reqs) {
        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < VK_MAX_MEMORY_TYPES; i++) {
-            if (types & 1) {
+            if (flags & 1) {
                if ((memoryProperties.memoryTypes[i].propertyFlags & reqs) == reqs) {
                    return i;
                }
            }
-            types >>= 1;
+            flags >>= 1;
        }
        return (uint32_t) VK_MAX_MEMORY_TYPES;
    }

-    inline uint32_t selectMemoryType(uint32_t types, VkFlags reqs) const {
+    inline uint32_t selectMemoryType(uint32_t flags, VkFlags reqs) const {
        if ((reqs & VK_MEMORY_PROPERTY_PROTECTED_BIT) != 0) {
            assert_invariant(isProtectedMemorySupported());
        }
-        return selectMemoryType(mMemoryProperties, types, reqs);
+        return selectMemoryType(mMemoryProperties, flags, reqs);
    }

    inline fvkutils::VkFormatList const& getAttachmentDepthStencilFormats() const {
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ void VulkanDescriptorSetCache::updateBuffer(fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanDescri
        uint8_t binding, fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBufferObject> bufferObject,
        VkDeviceSize offset, VkDeviceSize size) noexcept {
    VkDescriptorBufferInfo const info = {
-        .buffer = bufferObject->buffer.getVkBuffer(),
+        .buffer = bufferObject->buffer.getGpuBuffer(),
        .offset = offset,
        .range = size,
    };
@@ -358,11 +358,12 @@ void VulkanDescriptorSetCache::updateSamplerImpl(VkDescriptorSet vkset, uint8_t
        range.levelCount = 1;
        range.layerCount = 1;
    }
-    VkDescriptorImageInfo info = {
+    VkDescriptorImageInfo info{
        .sampler = sampler,
        .imageView = texture->getView(range),
-        .imageLayout = fvkutils::getVkLayout(texture->getSamplerLayout()),
+        .imageLayout = fvkutils::getVkLayout(texture->getDefaultLayout()),
    };
+
    VkWriteDescriptorSet descriptorWrite = {
        .sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_WRITE_DESCRIPTOR_SET,
        .pNext = nullptr,
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@
 #include "CommandStreamDispatcher.h"
 #include "SystraceProfile.h"
 #include "VulkanAsyncHandles.h"
-#include "VulkanBufferCache.h"
-#include "VulkanBufferProxy.h"
+#include "VulkanBuffer.h"
 #include "VulkanCommands.h"
 #include "VulkanDriverFactory.h"
 #include "VulkanHandles.h"
@@ -85,11 +84,7 @@ VmaAllocator createAllocator(VkInstance instance, VkPhysicalDevice physicalDevic
        .vkGetImageMemoryRequirements2KHR = vkGetImageMemoryRequirements2KHR
 #endif
    };
-    VmaAllocatorCreateInfo const allocatorInfo{
-        // Disable the internal VMA synchronization because the backend is singled threaded.
-        // Improve CPU performance when using VMA functions. The backend will guarantee that all
-        // access to VMA is done in a thread safe way.
-        .flags = VMA_ALLOCATOR_CREATE_EXTERNALLY_SYNCHRONIZED_BIT,
+    VmaAllocatorCreateInfo const allocatorInfo {
        .physicalDevice = physicalDevice,
        .device = device,
        .pVulkanFunctions = &funcs,
@@ -104,15 +99,15 @@ VKAPI_ATTR VkBool32 VKAPI_CALL debugReportCallback(VkDebugReportFlagsEXT flags,
        VkDebugReportObjectTypeEXT objectType, uint64_t object, size_t location,
        int32_t messageCode, const char* pLayerPrefix, const char* pMessage, void* pUserData) {
    if (flags & VK_DEBUG_REPORT_ERROR_BIT_EXT) {
-        FVK_LOGE << "VULKAN ERROR: (" << pLayerPrefix << ") " << pMessage;
+        FVK_LOGE << "VULKAN ERROR: (" << pLayerPrefix << ") " << pMessage << utils::io::endl;
    } else {
        // TODO: emit best practices warnings about aggressive pipeline barriers.
        if (strstr(pMessage, "ALL_GRAPHICS_BIT") || strstr(pMessage, "ALL_COMMANDS_BIT")) {
            return VK_FALSE;
        }
-        FVK_LOGW << "VULKAN WARNING: (" << pLayerPrefix << ") " << pMessage;
+        FVK_LOGW << "VULKAN WARNING: (" << pLayerPrefix << ") " << pMessage << utils::io::endl;
    }
-    FVK_LOGE;
+    FVK_LOGE << utils::io::endl;
    return VK_FALSE;
 }
 #endif // FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_VALIDATION)
@@ -122,16 +117,18 @@ VKAPI_ATTR VkBool32 VKAPI_CALL debugUtilsCallback(VkDebugUtilsMessageSeverityFla
        VkDebugUtilsMessageTypeFlagsEXT types, const VkDebugUtilsMessengerCallbackDataEXT* cbdata,
        void* pUserData) {
    if (severity & VK_DEBUG_UTILS_MESSAGE_SEVERITY_ERROR_BIT_EXT) {
-        FVK_LOGE << "VULKAN ERROR: (" << cbdata->pMessageIdName << ") " << cbdata->pMessage;
+        FVK_LOGE << "VULKAN ERROR: (" << cbdata->pMessageIdName << ") " << cbdata->pMessage
+                 << utils::io::endl;
    } else {
        // TODO: emit best practices warnings about aggressive pipeline barriers.
        if (strstr(cbdata->pMessage, "ALL_GRAPHICS_BIT")
                || strstr(cbdata->pMessage, "ALL_COMMANDS_BIT")) {
            return VK_FALSE;
        }
-        FVK_LOGW << "VULKAN WARNING: (" << cbdata->pMessageIdName << ") " << cbdata->pMessage;
+        FVK_LOGW << "VULKAN WARNING: (" << cbdata->pMessageIdName << ") " << cbdata->pMessage
+                 << utils::io::endl;
    }
-    FVK_LOGE << "";
+    FVK_LOGE << utils::io::endl;
    return VK_FALSE;
 }
 #endif // FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_DEBUG_UTILS)
@@ -212,8 +209,7 @@ VulkanDriver::VulkanDriver(VulkanPlatform* platform, VulkanContext const& contex
              mPlatform->getProtectedGraphicsQueueFamilyIndex(), &mContext),
      mPipelineLayoutCache(mPlatform->getDevice()),
      mPipelineCache(mPlatform->getDevice()),
-      mStagePool(mAllocator, &mResourceManager, &mCommands, &mContext.getPhysicalDeviceLimits()),
-      mBufferCache(context, mResourceManager, mAllocator),
+      mStagePool(mAllocator, &mCommands),
      mFramebufferCache(mPlatform->getDevice()),
      mYcbcrConversionCache(mPlatform->getDevice()),
      mSamplerCache(mPlatform->getDevice()),
@@ -274,18 +270,20 @@ Driver* VulkanDriver::create(VulkanPlatform* platform, VulkanContext const& cont
    //    VulkanRenderTarget            : 312       few
    // -- less than or equal to 312 bytes

-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanSwapChain: " << sizeof(VulkanSwapChain);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanBufferObject: " << sizeof(VulkanBufferObject);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanVertexBuffer: " << sizeof(VulkanVertexBuffer);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanVertexBufferInfo: " << sizeof(VulkanVertexBufferInfo);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanIndexBuffer: " << sizeof(VulkanIndexBuffer);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanRenderPrimitive: " << sizeof(VulkanRenderPrimitive);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanTexture: " << sizeof(VulkanTexture);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanTimerQuery: " << sizeof(VulkanTimerQuery);
-    FVK_LOGD << "HwStream: " << sizeof(HwStream);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanRenderTarget: " << sizeof(VulkanRenderTarget);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanFence: " << sizeof(VulkanFence);
-    FVK_LOGD << "VulkanProgram: " << sizeof(VulkanProgram);
+    FVK_LOGD
+           << "\nVulkanSwapChain: " << sizeof(VulkanSwapChain)
+           << "\nVulkanBufferObject: " << sizeof(VulkanBufferObject)
+           << "\nVulkanVertexBuffer: " << sizeof(VulkanVertexBuffer)
+           << "\nVulkanVertexBufferInfo: " << sizeof(VulkanVertexBufferInfo)
+           << "\nVulkanIndexBuffer: " << sizeof(VulkanIndexBuffer)
+           << "\nVulkanRenderPrimitive: " << sizeof(VulkanRenderPrimitive)
+           << "\nVulkanTexture: " << sizeof(VulkanTexture)
+           << "\nVulkanTimerQuery: " << sizeof(VulkanTimerQuery)
+           << "\nHwStream: " << sizeof(HwStream)
+           << "\nVulkanRenderTarget: " << sizeof(VulkanRenderTarget)
+           << "\nVulkanFence: " << sizeof(VulkanFence)
+           << "\nVulkanProgram: " << sizeof(VulkanProgram)
+           << utils::io::endl;
 #endif

    assert_invariant(platform);
@@ -330,6 +328,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::terminate() {
    // descriptorSetLayoutCache
    mExternalImageManager.terminate();

+    mStagePool.terminate();
    mPipelineCache.terminate();
    mFramebufferCache.terminate();
    mSamplerCache.terminate();
@@ -340,15 +339,6 @@ void VulkanDriver::terminate() {
    // Before terminating ResourceManager, we must make sure all of the resource_ptrs have been unset.
    mResourceManager.terminate();

-    // Must come after `mResourceManager`.
-    // Before terminating the memory pool, we must make sure all the VulkanBufferMemory are yielded
-    // back to the pool.
-    mBufferCache.terminate();
-
-    // Before terminating stagePool, we need all resources to have been
-    // reclaimed, as they perform cleanup within the stage pool.
-    mStagePool.terminate();
-
 #if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_RESOURCE_LEAK)
    mResourceManager.print();
 #endif
@@ -381,7 +371,6 @@ void VulkanDriver::collectGarbage() {
    mCommands.gc();
    mDescriptorSetCache.gc();
    mStagePool.gc();
-    mBufferCache.gc();
    mFramebufferCache.gc();
    mPipelineCache.gc();

@@ -525,7 +514,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::createIndexBufferR(Handle<HwIndexBuffer> ibh, ElementType ele
    FVK_SYSTRACE_SCOPE();
    auto elementSize = (uint8_t) getElementTypeSize(elementType);
    auto ib = resource_ptr<VulkanIndexBuffer>::make(&mResourceManager, ibh, mAllocator, mStagePool,
-            mBufferCache, elementSize, indexCount);
+            elementSize, indexCount);
    ib.inc();
 }

@@ -542,7 +531,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::createBufferObjectR(Handle<HwBufferObject> boh, uint32_t byte
        BufferObjectBinding bindingType, BufferUsage usage) {
    FVK_SYSTRACE_SCOPE();
    auto bo = resource_ptr<VulkanBufferObject>::make(&mResourceManager, boh, mAllocator, mStagePool,
-            mBufferCache, byteCount, bindingType);
+            byteCount, bindingType);
    bo.inc();
 }

@@ -633,7 +622,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::createTextureExternalImage2R(Handle<HwTexture> th, backend::S
    auto& commands = mCommands.get();
    // Unlike uploaded textures or swapchains, we need to explicit transition this
    // texture into the read layout.
-    texture->transitionLayout(&commands, texture->getPrimaryViewRange(), VulkanLayout::FRAG_READ);
+    texture->transitionLayout(&commands, texture->getPrimaryViewRange(), VulkanLayout::READ_ONLY);

    if (imgData.external.valid()) {
        mExternalImageManager.addExternallySampledTexture(texture, externalImage);
@@ -795,12 +784,14 @@ void VulkanDriver::createSwapChainR(Handle<HwSwapChain> sch, void* nativeWindow,
    mResourceManager.gc();

    if ((flags & backend::SWAP_CHAIN_CONFIG_SRGB_COLORSPACE) != 0 && !isSRGBSwapChainSupported()) {
-        FVK_LOGW << "sRGB swapchain requested, but Platform does not support it";
+        FVK_LOGW << "sRGB swapchain requested, but Platform does not support it"
+                 << utils::io::endl;
        flags = flags | ~(backend::SWAP_CHAIN_CONFIG_SRGB_COLORSPACE);
    }
    if (flags & backend::SWAP_CHAIN_CONFIG_PROTECTED_CONTENT) {
        if (!isProtectedContentSupported()) {
-            FVK_LOGW << "protected swapchain requested, but Platform does not support it";
+            FVK_LOGW << "protected swapchain requested, but Platform does not support it"
+                << utils::io::endl;
        }
    }
    auto swapChain = resource_ptr<VulkanSwapChain>::make(&mResourceManager, sch, mPlatform,
@@ -811,7 +802,8 @@ void VulkanDriver::createSwapChainR(Handle<HwSwapChain> sch, void* nativeWindow,
 void VulkanDriver::createSwapChainHeadlessR(Handle<HwSwapChain> sch, uint32_t width,
        uint32_t height, uint64_t flags) {
    if ((flags & backend::SWAP_CHAIN_CONFIG_SRGB_COLORSPACE) != 0 && !isSRGBSwapChainSupported()) {
-        FVK_LOGW << "sRGB swapchain requested, but Platform does not support it";
+        FVK_LOGW << "sRGB swapchain requested, but Platform does not support it"
+                      << utils::io::endl;
        flags = flags | ~(backend::SWAP_CHAIN_CONFIG_SRGB_COLORSPACE);
    }
    assert_invariant(width > 0 && height > 0 && "Vulkan requires non-zero swap chain dimensions.");
@@ -1231,7 +1223,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::updateIndexBuffer(Handle<HwIndexBuffer> ibh, BufferDescriptor
    VulkanCommandBuffer& commands = mCommands.get();
    auto ib = resource_ptr<VulkanIndexBuffer>::cast(&mResourceManager, ibh);
    commands.acquire(ib);
-    ib->buffer.loadFromCpu(commands, p.buffer, byteOffset, p.size);
+    ib->buffer.loadFromCpu(commands.buffer(), p.buffer, byteOffset, p.size);

    scheduleDestroy(std::move(p));
 }
@@ -1246,7 +1238,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::updateBufferObject(Handle<HwBufferObject> boh, BufferDescript

    auto bo = resource_ptr<VulkanBufferObject>::cast(&mResourceManager, boh);
    commands.acquire(bo);
-    bo->buffer.loadFromCpu(commands, bd.buffer, byteOffset, bd.size);
+    bo->buffer.loadFromCpu(commands.buffer(), bd.buffer, byteOffset, bd.size);

    scheduleDestroy(std::move(bd));
 }
@@ -1257,7 +1249,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::updateBufferObjectUnsynchronized(Handle<HwBufferObject> boh,
    auto bo = resource_ptr<VulkanBufferObject>::cast(&mResourceManager, boh);
    commands.acquire(bo);
    // TODO: implement unsynchronized version
-    bo->buffer.loadFromCpu(commands, bd.buffer, byteOffset, bd.size);
+    bo->buffer.loadFromCpu(commands.buffer(), bd.buffer, byteOffset, bd.size);
    scheduleDestroy(std::move(bd));
 }

@@ -1299,7 +1291,7 @@ TimerQueryResult VulkanDriver::getTimerQueryValue(Handle<HwTimerQuery> tqh, uint
    uint64_t const end = results.endTime;
    if (begin >= end) {
        // TODO: queries might have ran on different command buffers.
-        FVK_LOGW << "Timestamps are not monotonically increasing. ";
+        FVK_LOGW << "Timestamps are not monotonically increasing. " << utils::io::endl;
        *elapsedTime = 0;
        return TimerQueryResult::ERROR;
    }
@@ -1630,8 +1622,8 @@ void VulkanDriver::readPixels(Handle<HwRenderTarget> src, uint32_t x, uint32_t y
    mReadPixels.run(
            srcTarget, x, y, width, height, mPlatform->getGraphicsQueueFamilyIndex(),
            std::move(pbd),
-            [&context = mContext](uint32_t types, VkFlags reqs) {
-                return context.selectMemoryType(types, reqs);
+            [&context = mContext](uint32_t reqs, VkFlags flags) {
+                return context.selectMemoryType(reqs, flags);
            },
            [this](PixelBufferDescriptor&& pbd) {
                scheduleDestroy(std::move(pbd));
@@ -1906,7 +1898,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::bindRenderPrimitive(Handle<HwRenderPrimitive> rph) {
    // avoid rebinding these if they are already bound, but since we do not (yet) support subranges
    // it would be rare for a client to make consecutive draw calls with the same render primitive.
    vkCmdBindVertexBuffers(cmdbuffer, 0, bufferCount, buffers, offsets);
-    vkCmdBindIndexBuffer(cmdbuffer, prim->indexBuffer->buffer.getVkBuffer(), 0,
+    vkCmdBindIndexBuffer(cmdbuffer, prim->indexBuffer->buffer.getGpuBuffer(), 0,
            prim->indexBuffer->indexType);
 }

@@ -2037,7 +2029,7 @@ void VulkanDriver::debugCommandBegin(CommandStream* cmds, bool synchronous, cons
        assert_invariant(inRenderPass);
        inRenderPass = false;
    } else if (inRenderPass && OUTSIDE_COMMANDS.find(command) != OUTSIDE_COMMANDS.end()) {
-        FVK_LOGE << command.data() << " issued inside a render pass.";
+        FVK_LOGE << command.data() << " issued inside a render pass." << utils::io::endl;
    }
 #endif
 }
@@ -18,17 +18,15 @@
 #define TNT_FILAMENT_BACKEND_VULKANDRIVER_H

 #include "VulkanBlitter.h"
-#include "VulkanBufferCache.h"
 #include "VulkanConstants.h"
 #include "VulkanContext.h"
 #include "VulkanFboCache.h"
 #include "VulkanHandles.h"
-#include "VulkanMemory.h"
 #include "VulkanPipelineCache.h"
-#include "VulkanQueryManager.h"
 #include "VulkanReadPixels.h"
 #include "VulkanSamplerCache.h"
 #include "VulkanStagePool.h"
+#include "VulkanQueryManager.h"
 #include "VulkanYcbcrConversionCache.h"
 #include "vulkan/VulkanDescriptorSetCache.h"
 #include "vulkan/VulkanDescriptorSetLayoutCache.h"
@@ -140,7 +138,6 @@ private:
    VulkanPipelineLayoutCache mPipelineLayoutCache;
    VulkanPipelineCache mPipelineCache;
    VulkanStagePool mStagePool;
-    VulkanBufferCache mBufferCache;
    VulkanFboCache mFramebufferCache;
    VulkanYcbcrConversionCache mYcbcrConversionCache;
    VulkanSamplerCache mSamplerCache;
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ VkFramebuffer VulkanFboCache::getFramebuffer(FboKey const& config) noexcept {
        << "for render pass " << config.renderPass << ", "
        << "samples = " << int(config.samples) << ", "
        << "depth = " << (config.depth ? 1 : 0) << ", "
-        << "attachmentCount = " << attachmentCount;
+        << "attachmentCount = " << attachmentCount
+        << utils::io::endl;
    #endif

    VkFramebufferCreateInfo info {
@@ -340,7 +341,8 @@ VkRenderPass VulkanFboCache::getRenderPass(RenderPassKey const& config) noexcept
             << "needsResolveMask = " << int(config.needsResolveMask) << ", "
             << "usesLazilyAllocatedMemory = " << int(config.usesLazilyAllocatedMemory) << ", "
             << "viewCount = " << int(config.viewCount) << ", "
-             << "colorAttachmentCount[0] = " << subpasses[0].colorAttachmentCount;
+             << "colorAttachmentCount[0] = " << subpasses[0].colorAttachmentCount
+             << utils::io::endl;
 #endif

    return renderPass;
@@ -93,32 +93,7 @@ BitmaskGroup fromBackendLayout(DescriptorSetLayout const& layout) {
            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_EXTERNAL:
                fromStageFlags(binding.stageFlags, binding.binding, mask.externalSampler);
                UTILS_FALLTHROUGH;
-
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_CUBE_ARRAY_DEPTH:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_3D_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_UINT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_FLOAT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_INT:
-            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER_2D_MS_ARRAY_UINT: {
+            case DescriptorType::SAMPLER: {
                fromStageFlags(binding.stageFlags, binding.binding, mask.sampler);
                break;
            }
@@ -287,7 +262,7 @@ VulkanProgram::VulkanProgram(VkDevice device, Program const& builder) noexcept

 #if FVK_ENABLED(FVK_DEBUG_SHADER_MODULE)
    FVK_LOGD << "Created VulkanProgram " << builder << ", shaders = (" << modules[0]
-             << ", " << modules[1] << ")";
+             << ", " << modules[1] << ")" << utils::io::endl;
 #endif
 }

@@ -520,8 +495,7 @@ void VulkanRenderTarget::emitBarriersEndRenderPass(VulkanCommandBuffer& commands
            }
        } else {
            texture->setLayout(range, VulkanFboCache::FINAL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_LAYOUT);
-            if (texture->isSampleable() &&
-                    !texture->transitionLayout(&commands, range, VulkanLayout::FRAG_READ)) {
+            if (!texture->transitionLayout(&commands, range, VulkanLayout::READ_WRITE)) {
                texture->attachmentToSamplerBarrier(&commands, range);
            }
        }
@@ -583,22 +557,22 @@ void VulkanVertexBuffer::setBuffer(fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanBufferObject> b
    int8_t const* const attribToBuffer = vbi->getAttributeToBuffer();
    for (uint8_t attribIndex = 0; attribIndex < count; attribIndex++) {
        if (attribToBuffer[attribIndex] == static_cast<int8_t>(index)) {
-            vkbuffers[attribIndex] = bufferObject->buffer.getVkBuffer();
+            vkbuffers[attribIndex] = bufferObject->buffer.getGpuBuffer();
        }
    }
    mResources.push_back(bufferObject);
 }

 VulkanBufferObject::VulkanBufferObject(VmaAllocator allocator, VulkanStagePool& stagePool,
-        VulkanBufferCache& bufferCache, uint32_t byteCount, BufferObjectBinding bindingType)
+        uint32_t byteCount, BufferObjectBinding bindingType)
    : HwBufferObject(byteCount),
-      buffer(allocator, stagePool, bufferCache, getBufferObjectUsage(bindingType), byteCount),
+      buffer(allocator, stagePool, getBufferObjectUsage(bindingType), byteCount),
      bindingType(bindingType) {}

 VulkanRenderPrimitive::VulkanRenderPrimitive(PrimitiveType pt,
        fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanVertexBuffer> vb,
        fvkmemory::resource_ptr<VulkanIndexBuffer> ib)
-    : HwRenderPrimitive{ .type = pt },
+    : HwRenderPrimitive{.type = pt},
      vertexBuffer(vb),
      indexBuffer(ib) {}

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