Remove the "VM" and "bytecode" features (#745)

* Remove the "VM" and "bytecode" features

The "bytecode" in `bc.{h,cpp}` was an initial attempt at a serialized encoding for the Slang IR, but we now have the `ir-serialize.{h,cpp}` approach which was has been kept up to date much better.

Similarly, the "VM" in `vm.{h,cpp}` was intended to be a system for interpreting Slang code in the bytecode format directly (so that you could load and evaluate code in a Slang module in a lightweight fashion). This never got used past a single test, which we eventually disabled.

There are good ideas in some of this code, but at this point the implementations have bit-rotted to a point where trying to maintain it is more costly than it would be to re-created it if/when we ever decide these features are important again.

* fixup: remove slang-eval-test from Makefile

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/premake5.lua b/premake5.lua
index dcc86913a..7bf5a34ca 100644
--- a/premake5.lua
+++ b/premake5.lua
@@ -449,18 +449,6 @@ tool "slang-reflection-test"
     links { "slang" }
 
 --
--- `slang-eval-test` is similarly easy to build:
---
--- Note: `slang-eval-test` will probably be deprecated and its functionality
--- folded into `render-test`, but we aren't ready for that just yet.
---
-
-tool "slang-eval-test"
-    uuid "205FCAB9-A13F-4980-86FA-F6221A7095EE"
-    includedirs { "." }
-    links { "core", "slang" }
-
---
 -- The most complex testing tool we have is `render-test`, but from
 -- a build perspective the most interesting thing about it is that for
 -- our Windows build it requires a Windows 10 SDK.