[Mesa-dev] GLSL swizzle lowering

[Ian Romanick]

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Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org
> <mailto:idr at freedesktop.org>> wrote:
> Marek Ol?ák wrote:
>> a D3D10 feature), which kind of makes this optimization a no-go. I
>> suggest using SEQ instead:
> 
>> bvec4 selector = equal(vec4(i), vec4(0,1,2,3));
>> float f = dot(v, vec4(selector));
> 
>> which should end up being just SEQ followed by DP4.
> 
> SEQ isn't part of the ARB_fragment_program / ARB_vertex_program
> instruction set either.  Does R300 support that?  I won't be surprised
> if i915 doesn't.  Of course, it doesn't support the ARL-based
> optimization either.
> 
> 
>> R500 vertex shaders support SEQ natively.
> 
>> For R300 vertex shaders, SEQ is lowered to a sequence of opcodes SGE,
>> SGE, MUL. (because CMP is unsupported in hw)
> 
>> For R300-R500 fragment shaders, SEQ is lowered to a sequence of opcodes
>> ADD, CMP. (because SGE is unsupported in hw)
> 
>> SEQ is probably the best "high-level" instruction here, but I am ok with
>> anything other than ARL.

Hmm... it sounds like SEQ is the right way to go.  We may miss some
small optimization opportunities, but variable indexing of a vector
happens infrequently enough that it shouldn't be a big deal.

Thanks for your input.
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