Re: Binary vs Text

Florian, while I don't disagree that FXC has a lot of bugs, I'd appreciate
if you used a more professional tone in this forum. Coating your point in
colorful language doesn't help with getting it across.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:54 PM Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:30 PM Filip Pizlo <fpizlo@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> emit MSL, HLSL, or SPIR-V.
>>
>
> Well, if you've got to emit HLSL you're screwed. Because it's longstanding
> Microsoft tradition that compilers are shit and slow. It's always been
> Microsofts view that you should precompile shaders to DXIL. The whole
> exercise only has any point if you can cut out slow middleware that can't
> do what it's supposed to do in a reasonable amount of time despite
> developers complaining and arguing about it for the better part of 2
> decades. At this point it's fairly certain to assume drivers and Direct3D
> are always going to be shit at compiling anything, apparently hiring
> capable programmers for compiler design is hard or whatever, so the only
> way to make any progress is to take that responsibility entirely out of
> their incapable hands.
>