Developer controlled layout

1. A method of compiling instructions for a GPU program, the method comprising:

translating the instructions for the GPU program from a shading language into an intermediate language with a front end of a GPU compiler; and

translating the instructions from the intermediate language into a GPU object language with a back end of the GPU compiler;

wherein the instructions for the GPU program in the shading language include instructions defining a layout of resources for the GPU program, wherein the instructions in the shading language defining the layout are cross-compilable to a language executable by a CPU, wherein the GPU compiler is configured to cross-compile the instructions in the shading language defining the layout.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cross-compilable instructions are incorporated into a header of the instructions in the shading language.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions defining the layout of resources include instructions defining an allocation of memory resources for the GPU program.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions defining the layout of resources include instructions defining a resource descriptor for the GPU program.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions defining the layout of resources are programmed by a developer of the GPU program.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions defining the layout of resources include a shader resource table.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GPU program is configured to render graphics for a corresponding CPU program implemented by the CPU.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the method further includes running the GPU program with a GPU and running the corresponding CPU program with the CPU.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions defining the layout of resources include instructions defining a layout of buffers of data and instructions defining a layout of uniform constants.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the GPU object language is machine code.

11. A system for processing graphics, the system comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU);

a graphics processing unit (GPU);

a memory;

and a GPU compiler embodied in the memory and executable by the CPU, wherein the GPU compiler is configured to implement a method of compiling instructions for a GPU program in a shading language, the method comprising:

translating the instructions for the GPU program from a shading language into an intermediate language with a front end of the GPU compiler; and

translating the instructions from the intermediate language into a GPU object language with a back end of the GPU compiler;

wherein the instructions for the GPU program in the shading language include instructions defining a layout of resources for the GPU program, wherein the GPU compiler is further configured to cross-compile the instructions defining the resource layout into a language executable by the CPU.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied therein computer readable instructions configured to implement a method of compiling instructions for a GPU program, the method comprising:

translating the instructions for the GPU program from a shading language into an intermediate language with a front end of a GPU compiler; and

translating the instructions from the intermediate language into a GPU object language with a back end of the GPU compiler;

wherein the instructions for the GPU program in the shading language include instructions defining a layout of resources for the GPU program, wherein the instructions in the shading language defining the layout are cross-compilable to a language executable by a CPU, wherein the GPU compiler is configured to cross-compile the instructions in the shading language defining the layout.