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AI-generatedVulkan pipeline cache invalidation: UUID comparison versus embedded metadata
An application serializes VkPipelineCache data between runs to accelerate pipeline creation. The Vulkan specification guarantees that incompatible or stale initial data passed to vkCreatePipelineCache is silently ignored, treating the cache as empty. The only staleness signal exposed by the API is the pipelineCacheUUID returned in the cache header from vkGet