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Explainer

To simplify the copy of entire buffers, a new overload has been added to
the GPUCommandEncoder copyBufferToBuffer() method, allowing developers to
omit offsets and size parameters.


https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/5098

Specification

https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/#dom-gpucommandencoder-copybuffertobuffer

Summary

Functionality added to the WebGPU spec after its first shipment in a
browser.

The GPUCommandEncoder copyBufferToBuffer() method now includes a simpler
way to copy entire buffers using a new overload with optional offsets and
size parameters.

Blink component

Blink>WebGPU
<https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EWebGPU>

TAG review

None

TAG review status

Not applicable

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

This feature has not yet been implemented in any browser. It has been
approved by the GPU for the Web Community Group, with representatives from
Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. See minutes at

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/GPU-Web-2025-03-19#make-the-last-2-arguments-to-copybuffertobuffer-optional-4807

Gecko: No signal (Mozilla members have requested during weekly
standardization meetings that we postpone filing standard positions until
we reach Candidate Recommendation (CR) status in Q4.)

WebKit: Positive (
https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/294#issuecomment-1877411933
)

Web developers: Positive (https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4807)

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

None


Debuggability

None

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No

All platforms will eventually have support. Will immediately be available
on Android, Android WebView, ChromeOS, Mac, and Windows, since those
platforms already support WebGPU. Linux is planned to have WebGPU support
in the future, so this feature will become available when WebGPU does.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
<https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
?

Yes

WebGPU/WGSL have a conformance test suite (https://github.com/gpuweb/cts)
that is regularly pulled into Chromium and part of the testing of Dawn/Tint
in Chromium. While the CTS can be embedded in WPT, the WebGPU team opted to
keep it separate in Chromium testing to use a customized harness for
robustness and performance. All the tests about this feature in WebGPU CTS
can be found through the below link:

https://github.com/gpuweb/cts/pull/4310

Flag name on chrome://flags

Experimental Web Platform Features

Finch feature name

WebGPUCopyBufferToBufferOverload

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/405883444

Estimated milestones

DevTrial on desktop

136

DevTrial on Android

136

Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
the API in a non-backward-compatible way).

None

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5172397000622080?gate=5107250466914304

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status
<https://chromestatus.com/>.

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