Add code required to use OpenGL assembly programs based on
NV_gpu_program5. Decompilation for ARB programs is intended to be added
in a follow up commit. This does **not** include ARB decompilation and
it's not in an usable state.
The intention behind assembly programs is to reduce shader stutter
significantly on drivers supporting NV_gpu_program5 (and other required
extensions). Currently only Nvidia's proprietary driver supports these
extensions.
Add a UI option hidden for now to avoid people enabling this option
accidentally.
This code path has some limitations that OpenGL compatibility doesn't
have:
- NV_shader_storage_buffer_object is limited to 16 entries for a single
OpenGL context state (I don't know if this is an intended limitation, an
specification issue or I am missing something). Currently causes issues
on The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
- NV_parameter_buffer_object can't bind buffers using an offset
different to zero. The used workaround is to copy to a temporary buffer
(this doesn't happen often so it's not an issue).
On the other hand, it has the following advantages:
- Shaders build a lot faster.
- We have control over how floating point rounding is done over
individual instructions (SPIR-V on Vulkan can't do this).
- Operations on shared memory can be unsigned and signed.
- Transform feedbacks are dynamic state (not yet implemented).
- Parameter buffers (uniform buffers) are per stage, matching NVN and
hardware's behavior.
- The API to bind and create assembly programs makes sense, unlike
ARB_separate_shader_objects.
Drop the usage of ARB_compute_variable_group_size and specialize compute
shaders instead. This permits compute to run on AMD and Intel
proprietary drivers.
flushing is now responsability of children caches instead of the cache
object. This change will allow the specific cache to pass extra
parameters on flushing and will allow more flexibility.
Quite a few unused includes have built up over time, particularly on
core/memory.h. Removing these includes means the source files including
those files will no longer need to be rebuilt if they're changed, making
compilation slightly faster in this scenario.
Geometry shaders follow a pattern that results in out of bound reads.
This pattern is:
- VSETP to predicate
- Use that predicate to conditionally set a register a big number
- Use the register to access geometry shaders
At the time of writing this commit I don't know what's the intent of
this number. Some drivers argue about these out of bound reads. To avoid
this issue, input reads are guarded limiting reads to the highest
posible vertex input of the current topology (e.g. points to 1 and
triangles to 3).
Rather than have a transparent dependency, we can make it explicit in
the interface. This also gets rid of the need to put the core include in
a header.
