Swapchain
A swapchain in Vulkan mimics the functionality of double and triple buffering from OpenGL but with a more explicit role for the application in managing swapchain buffers. This approach provides better control over the configuration, synchronization, and presentation of images.
A Vulkan swapchain is a collection of images associated with a surface (VkSurfaceKHR) that are used to display rendering outputs in a window. Even though it is a key part of the Vulkan API, the functions and types used to create and manage a swapchain are part of the VK_KHR_swapchain extension.
The number of images in a swapchain object must be determined during its construction but must fall between the minimum (minImageCount) and maximum (maxImageCount) possible values provided by the device. Those values can be retrieved from the VkSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR structure of the Vulkan physical device.
Swapchain images (VkImage) are created and owned by the swapchain object and, as a result, their...
