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Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader Compilation

The trials and tribulations of portability

Refresh only differed from his proposal in a few small details, and the implementation was mostly complete, so the FNA team submitted what I had written in the hopes of saving some time and developer effort. To their credit, the GPU manufacturers do contribute to open standards when it comes to the API level (Vulkan was originally an AMD research project called Mantle that was donated to the Khronos Group). Consider HLSL: it’s extremely widely adopted and can compile to DXBC, DXIL, and SPIR-V, which means that it can be used (with the help of SPIRV-Cross in the case of Apple platforms) as a source language for any currently available desktop graphics API.

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