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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2018
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Peter William Harris, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
When executing a shader program to perform graphics shading operations in a graphics processor, the graphics processor determines for instructions to be executed for the shader program, whether to replace the instructions with alternative instructions, based on the nature of the instructions and the values of input operands to be processed by the instructions, and either retains an instruction or replaces the instruction with an alternative instruction, accordingly.