[PATCH 4/5] wined3d: Introduce shader_run_compute operation for the spirv backend.

[Jan Sikorski]

> On 11 Aug 2021, at 14:25, Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think we have a number of options, each with their advantages and
> disadvantages:

I’m generally partial to just doing what needs to be done and skipping the higher level machinery, even if that’s a bit more implementation work. With the first approach I’d be worried about being too slow. The state tweaking sound adventurous, but yeah, maybe it’s fine for compute..
For the direct option, I’m not quite sure what would the preferred way of talking to the shader backend be - are you thinking a new backend operation that takes the byte code with extra info and returns a VkShaderModule (through some opaque integer that gets cast)? Going further, I wonder if it's preferable to just provide SPIR-V up front and skip the shader translation step too?

- Jan