HLSL Specifications

Design Meeting Minutes: 2025/05/27

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Administrivia

  • No updates

Issues

  • No marked issues

PRs

Carried Forward

Current Business

  • Add an initial proposal for HLSL 202x deprecations
    • Needs second review
    • Action Item: @pow2clk, @V-FEXrt
  • Constant Buffer Contexts
    • Ready for review
    • Action Item: @hekota, @V-FEXrt
  • Design Considerations Update
    • Some concerns were raised about whether or not we should directly refernece The Zen of Python, or if we should instead codify more concrete rules ourselves.
      • Some concerns were raised about the lack of specificity of the Zen of Python.
      • Additional concerns were raised about Python specifically being an interpreted and very different language.
      • Counter points were raised that the intent isn’t that these be hard rules, and that nothing about the Zen of Python is specific to scripting languages or dynamic typing.
    • Action Item: @pow2clk plans to review in detail and provide concrete feedback on the PR.
    • Additonal feedback is greatly appreciated.
  • Memory and Execuition Model
    • Draft document provides three alternatives on a spectrum from full lockstep to fully indipendent threads.
    • Some discussion about whether or not the code examples are or should be considered valid and it what contexts they might be.
    • We need more extensive review and refinement as well as more fleshing out of the memory model.
    • Action Item: @llvm-beanz to continue iterating on the proposal.

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