Vectorization of shaders
US8806458B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 16, 2012 |
| Grant date | Aug 12, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 13, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/45525
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Intermediate representation (IR) code is received as compiled from a shader in the form of shader language source code. The input IR code is first analyzed during an analysis pass, during which operations, scopes, parts of scopes, and if-statement scopes are annotated for predication, mask usage, and branch protection and predication. This analysis outputs vectorization information that is then used by various sets of vectorization transformation rules to vectorize the input IR code, thus producing vectorized output IR code.
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