Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker

[stiiixy]

this is not the glamorous work to convert legacy to modern when legacy was working. But it pays off for the developers.

Is there anything stopping anyone from still utilising 'legacy'?

[varikonniemi]

this is not the glamorous work to convert legacy to modern when legacy was working. But it pays off for the developers.

[skeevy420]

It's not the same kind of IR, but it is technically IR linking

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker

Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-243-Drops-Old-GLSL-IR-Link