Mesa's NIR Linker Taking On More Duties - Further Enhancing Linker Speed

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Phoronix: Mesa's NIR Linker Taking On More Duties - Further Enhancing Linker Speed

The NIR intermediate representation is already faster than GLSL IR and TGSI but could be seeing even quicker linking speeds moving forward...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-NIR-More-Duties

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@Michael

Especially this commit

mesa/st/i965: add a ProgramResourceHash for quicker resource lookup
dd09f1d806bab62e2399d2fc7a5d0922c594eab3
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...5d0922c594eab3

brings GREAT numbers for Vulkan and OpenGL (on Polaris 20 at least).
GOOD work Tapani Pälli.

'vkmark' never show better numbers on my system and 'glmark2' is now nearly back at the level before

[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/4] RadeonSI: Upload constants to VRAM via SDMA
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...ry/215810.html

And Marek did even more optimization work.
Starting, here:

gallium: put u_vbuf_get_caps return values into u_vbuf_caps
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/me...fdcf86d5942fe5