Name NV_fence Name Strings GL_NV_fence Contact John Spitzer,
NVIDIA Corporation (jspitzer 'at' Mark Kilgard, NVIDIA
Corporation (mjk 'at' Contributors John Spitzer Mark Kilgard
Acorn Pooley Notice Copyright NVIDIA Corporation, 2000, 2001. IP
Status NVIDIA Proprietary. Status Shipping as of June 8, 2000
(version 1.0) Shipping as of November, 2003 (version 1.1)
Version 1.2 adds ES support and clarification; otherwise
identical to 1.1. Version December 17, 2008 (version 1.2) Number
OpenGL Extension #222 OpenGL ES Extension #52 Dependencies This
extension is written against the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification. It
can also be used with OpenGL ES (see the section, "Dependencies
on OpenGL ES," below). Overview The goal of this extension is
provide a finer granularity of synchronizing GL command
completion than offered by standard OpenGL, which offers only
two mechanisms for synchronization: Flush and Finish. Since
Flush merely assures the user that the commands complete in a
finite (though undetermined) amount of time, i