[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/12] i965: Generate NIR at link time

[Ian Romanick]

Patches 1 through 9 and 12 are

Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick at intel.com>

The other 3 have some comments / discussion.

On 04/08/2015 12:06 AM, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This series makes i965 generate NIR at link time (or ProgramStringNotify
> time for ARB programs), rather than on each FS/VS compile.  This means
> we only do it once, rather than for SIMD8 and again for SIMD16 programs.
> It also means we can avoid it when doing state based recompiles.
> 
> It speeds up shader-db on my Broadwell by about 9.4%.
> 
> It also adds INTEL_DEBUG=ann support, now that we keep a persistent copy
> of the NIR program around for the annotations to refer to.
> 
> Available in the 'nir-link' branch of ~kwg/mesa.
> 
> --Ken
> 
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