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# MTLPipelineOption

Options that determine how Metal prepares the pipeline.

```
struct MTLPipelineOption
```

## Topics

### Retrieving argument information

[`MTLPipelineOptionNone`](/documentation/Metal/MTLPipelineOption/MTLPipelineOptionNone)

Don’t provide any reflection information.

[`bufferTypeInfo`](/documentation/Metal/MTLPipelineOption/bufferTypeInfo)

An option instance that provides detailed buffer type information for buffer arguments.

[`failOnBinaryArchiveMiss`](/documentation/Metal/MTLPipelineOption/failOnBinaryArchiveMiss)

An option that instructs the compiler to return an error when a GPU function isn’t in a binary archive.

[`argumentInfo`](/documentation/Metal/MTLPipelineOption/argumentInfo)

An option instance that provides argument information for textures and threadgroup memory.

### Creating compilation options

[`init(rawValue:)`](/documentation/Metal/MTLPipelineOption/init(rawValue:))

Creates empty compilation options.

### Type properties

[`bindingInfo`](/documentation/Metal/MTLPipelineOption/bindingInfo)

An option that provides binding information for pipeline state resources.


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