The glDebugMessageCallback function will set a callback that will relay
all messages coming from the driver (on supported drivers at least).
For nvidia, sometimes there are a lot of irrelevant messages, which is
nice depending on the type of application you're writing.
I actually at first thought these messages were important, but it turns
out that they're almost always irrelevant and not actually warnings.
Most of the messages at a certain type/severity are mostly for debugging
purposes or minor hints about how to maximize performance, so
unfortunately there ends up being a lot of pointless spam in the debug
output.
The particular performance messages are related to optimizations you can
get via multithreading, and are optimizations you would expect for games
more than for this type of application. They don't really apply for our
use cases most of the time.
High severity messages however are not omitted regardless of message
type.
These messages can be enabled again by simply defining the
SHOW_ALL_GL_MESSAGES macro.
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