OpenGL ES 3.2 adds a few things we care about supporting in core. In particular:
- GL_{ARB,EXT,OES}_draw_elements_base_vertex
- KHR_Debug
- Sample Shading
- GL_{ARB,EXT,OES,NV}_copy_image
- Geometry shaders
- Geometry shader instancing (If they support GL_{EXT,OES}_geometry_point_size)
Nvidia was the first to release an OpenGL ES 3.2 driver which I uesd to test this on.
This also enables GS Instancing on GLES 3.1 hardware if it supports all of the required extensions.
In particular this optimizes the case where a 32bit float is loaded via lfs, and then used in double operations.
This happens very often in Gekko based code because the best way to load a 32bit value as a double is lfs since it automatically turns in to a double value.
There are a few other implications of this in practice as well. Like if both of the paired registers are loaded via psq_l and then used in double
operations it would be improved.
Also if we implement a double register we've got to be careful to make sure we understand if it is in "lower" register or the full 128bit register.
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