Identifying application buffers for post-processing and re-use in secondary applications

A system comprising:

• one or more processing units to:
• identifying a plurality of buffers associated with an application processing a plurality of frames;
• generating a data structure for at least one buffer of the plurality of buffers;
• responsive to detecting a draw call directed to the at least one buffer of the plurality of buffers, updating a statistic of a plurality of statistics of the data structure corresponding to the at least one buffer, wherein the plurality of statistics includes at least one of:
• a draw call count, a viewport draw call count, or a matching draw data count;
• and
• for the at least one buffer, determining, based on a plurality of statistics of a corresponding data structure, a score reflecting a likelihood of the at least one buffer being associated with a specified buffer type.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• maintaining data structures for a plurality of buffers of a main application processing a plurality of frames;
• monitoring at least one application programming interface (API) call from the main application directed to a buffer of the plurality of buffers;
• and
• updating a statistic of a plurality of statistics of a data structure corresponding to the buffer, wherein the plurality of statistics includes at least one of:
• a draw call count, a viewport draw call count, or a matching draw data count.