I think my next blog post is going to be about NIR's copy_deref instruction and the mysterious wildcard deref type.
I said this months ago but I actually wrote the blog post on Friday. Should be coming out soon.
@gfxstrand Was that the post on PanVK that came out yesterday or are you working on a second one for your personal blog ?
@gob It'll be on the Collabora blog in a week or two. It's a post about memory access optimization.
@gfxstrand cool! we've been playing with NIR/aco on our end, and it's definitely a bit of a engineering culture shock for us coming from LLVM and our own compilers, the derefs had us stumped for a bit, any additional resources on NIR's design are greatly appreciated