GLSL/TGSI On-Disk Shader Cache Lands In Mesa For R600g/RadeonSI

[M@GOid]

I believe some Valve games will benefit from this too, since L4D2 and CS:GO have significant longer load times than their Windows versions in my system.

[Hi-Angel]

Can most of this be used by nine as well in the future?

I don't think nine skips TGSI representation, so it should work already.

[Hi-Angel]

Where's the cache dir? I just wanted to check if it's working, so I built/installed mesa-git, ran a game, and I didn't see ~/.cache/mesa dir. Should I set some env. variable? Or is it another directory?

[Michael]

Where's the cache dir? I just wanted to check if it's working, so I built/installed mesa-git, and I didn't see ~/.cache/mesa dir. Should I set some env. variable? Or is it another directory?

Did you set MESA_GLSL_CACHE_ENABLE=1 env var?

[Hi-Angel]

Did you set MESA_GLSL_CACHE_ENABLE=1 env var?

Nope. Thank you, I've suspected something like that. Neither article, nor the commit mentions that

[Hi-Angel]

Can most of this be used by nine as well in the future?

I don't think nine skips TGSI representation, so it should work already.

Okay, so to be exact: yes, it works, I just ran GTAⅣ with wine-nine, and I see the cache dir appeared.

[duby229]

So I think if I just sync my mesa git it will include these patches? Cool.

[eydee]

Whenever interesting things to test happen, Padoka says: Built 5+ days ago.

[gbil]

I'll test later today Trine 3 which suffers from this issue too, currently it takes 2,5 minutes to load was 5 minutes before some shader optimizations a months ago.

Do we need to add any special configure option for compilation ?

Just tested it and the difference is huge.

1st run 1:22 min down from 2:30min
2nd run 0:50 min

every other run around 0:50 min.

As I understood we expect some more optimization but the work done here is brilliant. Thanks Timothy

[geearf]

I don't think nine skips TGSI representation, so it should work already.

I'd assume it'd have to be hooked up somehow, since nine doesn't use the GLSL parser/compiler but an HSL one.