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Tint Architecture
+--------+ +------+
| SPIR-V | | WGSL |
+----|---+ +---|--+
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+---------|---------------------------|--------+
| | Reader | |
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| +-------|------+ +------|------+ |
| | SPIRV-Reader | | WGSL-Reader | |
| +--------------+ +-------------+ |
+-----------------------|----------------------+
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+--|--+ +---------+
| AST |------| IsValid |
+--|--+ +---------+
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+--------|--------+
| Type Determiner |
+--------|--------+
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+-----|-----+
| Validator |
+-----|-----+
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+------|-----+
| Transforms |
+------|-----+
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+-------------------------------------|------------------------------------+
| Writer |
| |
| +--------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +------------+ |
| | SPIRV-Writer | | WGSL-Writer | | HLSL-Writer | | MSL-Writer | |
| +-------|------+ +------|------+ +------|------+ +------|-----+ |
+---------|------------------|------------------|------------------|-------+
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
+----|---+ +---|--+ +---|--+ +--|--+
| SPIR-V | | WGSL | | HLSL | | MSL |
+--------+ +------+ +------+ +-----+
WGSL Reader
The WGSL reader is a recursive descent parser. It closely follows the WGSL grammar in the naming of the parse methods.
AST
After generation the AST will run an IsValid method which verifies that the
produced AST is structurally correct. This means that things like if
statements have a condition and body attached.
Type Determiner
The type determination stage assigns a result type to each node in the AST. It will do the minimal amount of validation required in order to always be accessing valid nodes, but that doesn't mean the overall AST is valid. (e.g. a 4 component vector type constructor with 5 components will pass type determination but is invalid.)
Validation
After the validation step the AST should be a known valid WGSL program.
Transforms
There maybe various transforms we want to run over the AST. This is for things like Vertex Pulling or Robust Buffer Access. These transforms will modify the AST and must produce valid AST after their execution.
Currently the transforms are run individually but we should consider adding a transform manager to maintain and execute the list of transforms.
Writers
The writers should be thread safe, we maybe generating the HLSL and MLS output at the same time on different threads. (The writer portion is the only one that needs to be thread safe.)