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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2016
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Peter William Harris, Cambridge, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
The sequence of instructions for a shader programto be executed by a shader core of a graphics processor is divided into an initial set of instructionsthat perform 'global' common expressions of the shader program, a set of instructionsin the shader program that perform expressions that are common to a given work group within a set of work items that the shader program is to process, and a main instruction sequencethat needs to be executed independently for each work item. Execution threads are then able to start executing the shader program either at the beginning of the global common expressions, or at the beginning of the work group common expressions, or at the beginning of the main instruction sequence