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Optimizing Shaders

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Now that we know how to figure out how fast our shaders are being computed in a frame, the next step is to learn how we can make them go even faster. Optimizing shaders is probably my favorite part about writing them! It always feels like a puzzle, and I love the feedback loop of making an optimization, measuring how much of an impact that had, and then doing it all again.

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Halladay, K. (2019). Optimizing Shaders. In: Practical Shader Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4457-9_14

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