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2025-09-30	Enhance buffer load specialization pass to specialize past field extracts. ↵	Yong He
	(#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.
2025-02-11	Add raypayload decoration to ray payload structs (#6164)	Ellie Hermaszewska
	* Add raypayload decoration to ray payload structs Closes https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/issues/6104 * Disable PAQs when compiling with DXC See https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/issues/3448
2024-04-03	Legalization of non-struct when function expects struct, resolves #3840 (#3880)	ArielG-NV
	* Legalization of non-struct when expects struct. `__forceVarIntoStructTemporarily()` solves the issue of passing "non-struct type's" into a parameter that only accepts "struct type's". The intrinsic solves the issue through checking the parameter of the intrinsic: If the parameter is a "struct type" * Return a reference to the parameter else * a "struct type" Temporary variable is made and the "non struct type" parameter is copied to a member of this struct. This struct is then returned by `__forceVarIntoStructTemporarily()`. Optionally if the use location of this call is a argument which can have side effects (out, inout, ref, etc.) the temporary struct variable is copied into the original "non struct type" parameter. Testing code has "addComplexity" functions to avoid optimizations through forcing side effects so we can predict the code output. * Address review comments - ForceInline ray functions - fix testing - adjust how we replace operands in senarios to avoid unexpected side effects of replacing operands without any explicit checks * Adjust nv test slightly and remove .glsl file * Remove implicit LOD sampling & test additions - Implicit LOD sampling is not allowed in a raygen. Implicit LOD sampling requires depth (from a fragment shader) to sample. Raygen does not have the depth, so this function was replaced. - Changed other tests for correctness/clarity * Test if Falcor breaks through use of ForceInline * Add back force inline may need to look at how Falcor wrote its slang shaders. This will be done if ForceInline causes issues since ForceInline should not affect code gen in an impactable way.