[HN Gopher] How to Read Shader Assembly
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How to Read Shader Assembly
Author : ingve
Score : 32 points
Date : 2021-04-19 06:04 UTC (16 hours ago)
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| pavlov wrote:
| I remember writing OpenGL fragment shader assembly for the Radeon
| 9600. The hardware had a 32-instruction limit for shader
| programs, so it was kind of fun trying to do as much as possible
| in one render pass.
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| Comparing that experience with the complexity of the instruction
| set described in this article, it's easy to appreciate how far
| GPUs have come in 19 years.
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