PIPELINE_CREATE_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION_BIT specifies that the created pipeline will not be optimized. Using this flag may reduce the time taken to create the pipeline.

PIPELINE_CREATE_ALLOW_DERIVATIVES_BIT specifies that the pipeline to be created is allowed to be the parent of a pipeline that will be created in a subsequent call to createGraphicsPipelines or createComputePipelines.

PIPELINE_CREATE_DERIVATIVE_BIT specifies that the pipeline to be created will be a child of a previously created parent pipeline.

PIPELINE_CREATE_CAPTURE_INTERNAL_REPRESENTATIONS_BIT_KHR specifies that the shader compiler should capture the internal representations of executables produced by the compile process which can later be retrieved by calling getPipelineExecutableInternalRepresentationsKHR. Enabling this flag must not affect the final compiled pipeline but may disable pipeline caching or otherwise affect pipeline creation time.

PIPELINE_CREATE_CAPTURE_STATISTICS_BIT_KHR specifies that the shader compiler should capture statistics for the executables produced by the compile process which can later be retrieved by calling getPipelineExecutableStatisticsKHR. Enabling this flag must not affect the final compiled pipeline but may disable pipeline caching or otherwise affect pipeline creation time.

PIPELINE_CREATE_DEFER_COMPILE_BIT_NV specifies that a pipeline is created with all shaders in the deferred state. Before using the pipeline the application must call compileDeferredNV exactly once on each shader in the pipeline before using the pipeline.

PIPELINE_CREATE_VIEW_INDEX_FROM_DEVICE_INDEX_BIT specifies that any shader input variables decorated as ViewIndex will be assigned values as if they were decorated as DeviceIndex.