On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM, Martin Peres <martin.pe...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > On 19/03/15 01:37, Jason Ekstrand wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Connor Abbott <cwabbo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Here are some ideas I think might be reasonable GSoC ideas. >>>>> >>>>> - GLSL linking in NIR >>>>> - Would allow us to stop doing optimizations and other expensive >>>>> things on GLSL IR >>>> >>>> Ian said this should wait until everything is using NIR so that we >>>> don't have two linkers. :) >>> >>> Yeah, and it also won't make sense to do it until we can get the NIR >>> optimizations up to par with the GLSL ones so that we can disable all >>> the GLSL ones after linking and not get a regression. This would >>> involve porting all the GLSL optimizations to NIR, which now that I >>> think about it actually seems like a quite doable GSoC project -- it's >>> a pretty well-defined task and there are lots of little optimizations >>> to translate so it's easy to make progress, although porting all of >>> them over might be too much for one summer. >> >> Yeah, grabbing a handful of optimizations and porting them seems like >> a good GSoC project to me. There's also the NIR checklist which >> people could grab stuff off of. > > > Seems like a good project to me, please add it to the ideas list ASAP!
Done! Sorry it took so long. --Jason _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
