aras-p/glsl-optimizer

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A C++ library based on Mesa's GLSL compiler that performs GPU-independent optimizations on GLSL shaders and outputs optimized GLSL or Metal source. It was built for Unity's mobile shader compilation pipeline.

Use cases

• optimize glsl shaders for mobile gpus
• convert glsl shaders to metal source
• strip dead code from shaders offline
• do uniform and input reflection for shaders offline
• constant folding and inlining in shader code

When to choose

• you need offline GLSL optimization for mobile platforms lacking good shader compilers
• you want to transpile GLSL to Metal
• you're maintaining a legacy Unity 3.x-era shader pipeline

When to avoid

• you need an actively maintained shader compiler - the project has been unmaintained since 2016
• you're building a modern shader pipeline - Unity itself moved to a different compilation pipeline
• you need modern GLSL/Vulkan features

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

compiler developer-tools graphics developer-tools cpp windows cross-platform glsl shaders metal shader-optimization mesa unity game-development macos linux

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