[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/5] i965/fs: Remove the old visitor code

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> Now that we're using NIR by default and everything seems stable there, we
> have about 3000 lines of extra code lying around that we don't need.  We
> might as well delete it. :-)
>
> This series together with one of the patches I sent yesterday can be found
> in the review/fs-nir-only branch on my freedesktop:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jekstrand/mesa/log/?h=review/fs-nir-only

Thanks Jason.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5040325  192800   26512 5259637  504175 before/i965_dri.so
4932875  193112   26448 5152435  4e9eb3 after/i965_dri.so

Looks like this cuts about 2% of the .text size. Unexpectedly, it
increases the .data size?

I compiled this branch with gcc and clang and didn't see any
additional warnings.

The areas I'm aware of that NIR produces more instructions than the
visitor code are:

 - the texture in then/else cases of an if
 - Missing try_emit_line() for gen <= 5
 - Emits an extra CMP for discards (I've got a WIP patch)
 - Missing emit_gen6_if(). Probably want to do this differently (after
optimizations) anyway

I'm okay with not blocking on any of those.

Do you know of any others?