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The original idea was that the backend compiler could eliminate surfaces, so we would have it mark which ones are actually used, then shrink the binding table accordingly. Unfortunately, it's a pretty blunt mechanism - it can only prune things from the end, not the middle - since we decide the layout before we even start the backend compiler, and only limit the size. It also basically gives up if it sees indirect array access. Besides, we do the vast majority of our surface elimination in NIR anyway, not the backend - and I don't see that trend changing any time soon. Vulkan abandoned this plan a long time ago, and I don't use it in Iris, but it's still been kicking around in i965. I hacked shader-db to print the binding table size in bytes, and observed no changes with this patch. So, this code appears to do nothing useful. Acked-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
`Mesa <https://mesa3d.org>`_ - The 3D Graphics Library
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