[LLVMdev] [RFC] Upstreaming LLVM/SPIR-V converter

[Chris Lattner]

> On May 15, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 to lib/Target/SPIRV/(Reader|Writer)
> 
> I really like this idea. I’ve talked with some people on both the LLVM and Khronos sides and I really think adding SPIR-V support to LLVM as an optional program serialization format would be fantastic. I think it would make it even easier for LLVM-based tools to be integrated into GPU authoring and execution pipelines.

I’m not that familiar with SPIRV, but if it really is a serialization format, then why isn’t it a parallel to llvm/lib/Bitcode?

-Chris