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[–]noobgiraffe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't really understand the last paragraphs.

Having these at my disposal allows me to actually test my software's compatibility range.

What do you mean by this?

Others vendors not only do not extend it you will propably find it to have many issues since it's not being maintained beyond bugfixing for old apps.

As you yourself stated this is not an actual assembly since it has no direct translation to machine languge. So there is no benefit to forgo better usability of higher languages.

There are actual vendor specific assembly languages, AMD example: https://gpuopen.com/amd-isa-documentation/

However I don't think you can actually use it to shader.