An adaptive selection scheme for opengl sc shader binary programs

In modern computer graphics, we have mixtures of the classical fixed-function graphics pipelines and the shader-programmable graphics pipelines. With the new shader-programmable graphics pipelines, every graphics output features should be implemented as the shader programs, which are binary executable codes spe-cific to the GPUs(graphics processing units). In the safety-critical market, the OpenGL SC (safety-critical) 1.0 fixed-function graphics library was widely used. Recently, they released the new standard specification of OpenGL SC 2.0, which uses only the shader-programmable graphics pipeline model, and cannot execute the deprecated OpenGL SC 1.0 programs. One solution to get the backward compatibility is emulating traditional SC 1.0 fixed-function programs with the SC 2.0 shader programs. In this work, we show an adaptive selection scheme, to choose the most optimal shader program, among a set of candidate shader-specific binary executable codes. We show the analysis of the problem and over-All design. We can accelerate the OpenGL SC 1.0 features emulations with this new adaptive selection scheme.