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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Peter William Harris, Cambridge, GB;
Mladen Wilder, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06F 11/3017 (2013.01); G06F 11/3466 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G09G 5/363 (2013.01);
Abstract
When a shader program is to be executed by a graphics processor, the graphics processor is caused to execute at least two variants of the shader program and the operation of the graphics processor when executing execution threads for the different variants of the shader program is monitored. A variant of the shader program to be executed by subsequent execution threads that are to execute the shader program is then selected based on the monitoring of the operation of the shading stage when executing the execution threads for the different variants of the shader program.