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Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8
A patch series six months in the making and consisting of 24 patches by longtime Intel Linux graphics engineer Ian Romanick was merged on Christmas Eve for Mesa 25.0.
Romanick explained in the commit introducing the Intel compiler infrastructure for storing convergent values as scalars: All of that restructuring for the Intel driver code is now merged for next quarter's Mesa 25.0 release. It took six months to work through due to addressing GPU hangs and other regressions from the significant changes.
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