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		eliben on March 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SPIR-V: Intermediate Language for Graphical Shader... So SPIR-V is completely unrelated to the previous attempt at a portable IR layer for compute kernels, named SPIR? This is crazy. Why is Khronos trying to be confusing?

wtallis on March 4, 2015 [–]

SPIR-V is clearly intended to be the successor and replacement for SPIR, and the name seems to be different enough to allow for breaking compatibility. (By one reading, it's incrementing the major version number by 3.)

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