[Mesa-dev] [RFC PATCH 00/16] A new IR for Mesa

[Connor Abbott]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at 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?
>
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> 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