Apple Inc.

Ravi Ramaseshan

Aaftab A Munshi

Owen C Anderson

Mon Ping Wang

Charles Brissart

Monping Wang

Owen Anderson

Ubershaders may be used in a graphics development environment as an efficiency tool because many options and properties may be captured in a single shader program. Each selectable option of property in the shader code may be tagged with an attribute to indicate the presence of the selection. The single shader program embodying the many selectable options and properties may be compiled to an intermediate version that also embodies the many options and properties, along with at least remnants of the tagging attributes. Upon a request for executable code including indications of the desired selectable options or properties, generation of the executable code may proceed such that it includes only the desire selectable options and properties and not other selectable options and properties embodied in the source code.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Ravi Ramaseshan