This is being implemented here first under EGL since the infrastructure is already in place for this due to the Android code requiring some bits.
The rest of the interfaces will come in a little bit.
This will be required for threaded shader compiling in the near future.
Approximately three or four times now, the issue of pointers being
in an inconsistent state been an issue in the video backend renderers
with regards to tripping up other developers.
Global (ugh) resources are put into a unique_ptr and will always have a
well-defined state of being - null or not null
Ryan Houdek