RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RadeonSI Introduces A Live Shader Cache With Mesa 20.0

In addition to the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's on-disk shader cache and in-memory shader cache there is now a "live shader cache" to help with deduplication of compiled shader objects...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RadeonSI-Live-Shader-Cache

[geearf]

Would something like this make sense for Vulkan as well?

Also Michael , typo:

of when games concert separate D3D

shouldn't it be convert?

[schmidtbag]

Does this imply reduced VRAM usage?

[brent]

This is nice. It should mean less shader compilation hickups, even without ACO.