On 19.08.2014 01:28, Connor Abbott wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote:
>> On 16.08.2014 09:12, Connor Abbott wrote:
>>> I know what you might be thinking right now. "Wait, *another* IR? Don't
>>> we already have like 5 of those, not counting all the driver-specific
>>> ones? Isn't this stuff complicated enough already?" Well, there are some
>>> pretty good reasons to start afresh (again...). In the years we've been
>>> using GLSL IR, we've come to realize that, in fact, it's not what we
>>> want *at all* to do optimizations on.
>>
>> Did you evaluate using LLVM IR instead of inventing yet another one?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Earthling Michel Dänzer            |                  http://www.amd.com
>> Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer
> 
> Yes. See
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2014-February/053502.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2014-February/053522.html

I know Ian can't deal with LLVM for some reason. I was wondering if
*you* evaluated it, and if so, why you rejected it.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer            |                  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer
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