Enhance buffer load specialization pass to specialize past field extracts. (#8547)

This allows us to specialize functions whose argument is a sub element
of a constant buffer, instead of being only applicable to entire buffer
element. Closes #8421.

This change also implements a proper heuristic to determine when to
specialize the calls and defer the buffer loads.

This PR addresses a pathological case exposed in
`slangpy\slangpy\benchmarks\test_benchmark_tensor.py`, which used to
take 27ms to finish, and now takes 1.25ms.


For example, given:
```
struct Bottom
{
    float bigArray[1024];

    [mutating]
    void setVal(int index, float value) { bigArray[index] = value; }
}

struct Root
{
    Bottom top[2];
    [mutating]
    void setTopVal(int x, int y, float value)
    {
        top[x].setVal(y, value);
    }
}

RWStructuredBuffer<Root> sb;

[shader("compute")]
[numthreads(1, 1, 1)]
void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID)
{
    sb[0].setTopVal(1, 2, 100.0f);
}
```

We are now able to specialize the call to `setTopVal` into:
```
void compute_main(uint3 tid: SV_DispatchThreadID)
{
    setTopVal_specialized(0, 1, 2, 100.0f);
}

void setTopVal_specialized(int sbIdx, int x, int y, float value)
{
      Bottom_setVal_specialized(sbIdx, x, y, value);
}

void Bottom_setVal_specialized(int sbIdx, int x, int y, float value)
{
     sb[sbIdx].top[x].bigArray[y] = value;
}
```

And get rid of all unnecessary loads. Achieving this requires a
combination of function call specialization and buffer-load-defer pass.
The buffer-load-defer pass has been completely rewritten to be more
correct and avoid introducing redundant loads.

This PR also adds tests to make sure pointers, bindless handles, and
loads from structured buffer or constant buffers works as expected.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/source/slang/slang-emit.cpp b/source/slang/slang-emit.cpp
index f1cc6090d..09c2efea9 100644
--- a/source/slang/slang-emit.cpp
+++ b/source/slang/slang-emit.cpp
@@ -1387,16 +1387,10 @@ Result linkAndOptimizeIR(
     specializeFuncsForBufferLoadArgs(codeGenContext, irModule);
 
     // Push `structuredBufferLoad` to the end of access chain to avoid loading unnecessary data.
-    if (isKhronosTarget(targetRequest) || isMetalTarget(targetRequest) ||
-        isWGPUTarget(targetRequest))
-        deferBufferLoad(irModule);
+    deferBufferLoad(codeGenContext, irModule);
 
     // We also want to specialize calls to functions that
     // takes unsized array parameters if possible.
-    // Moreover, for Khronos targets, we also want to specialize calls to functions
-    // that takes arrays/structs containing arrays as parameters with the actual
-    // global array object to avoid loading big arrays into SSA registers, which seems
-    // to cause performance issues.
     specializeArrayParameters(codeGenContext, irModule);
 
 #if 0