Traverse-Research / Traverse-Research/gpu-allocator

AllocatorVisualizer could/should implement Default

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Hello,
First of all, thank you for the excellent library.

The AllocatorVisualizer struct (both DX12 and Vulkan) are created using the new() function, which notably has no arguments. One might expect it to implement Default for this reason, but it does not.
There's a clippy lint for this: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#new_without_default
The Rust API guidelines recommend the same: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/interoperability.html

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Inspect the AllocatorVisualizer definitions for the Vulkan and DX12 backends and their argument-free new() constructors. Implement Default consistently for both, then run Clippy to verify the new_without_default lint is resolved and the existing test suite still passes.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Feature
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2/5
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