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swung0x48 3223ecb14e [Feat] (DirectVulkan): relax fragment precision where the bound formats allow it
- WIP, parked: measures 80.9 -> 94.8 fps on Adreno 650 / MC 26.2 (same scene,
  device cooled to 38-40C), but is NOT validated. Desktop GLSL carries no
  precision qualifiers, so every fragment value reaches the driver as fp32 while
  Adreno runs fp16 at twice the rate.
- RelaxTextureDerivedPrecisionPass taints the values a fragment shader derives
  from built-in inputs and decorates everything else RelaxedPrecision. The
  taint direction matters: whitelisting outward from texture reads captures
  nothing, because MC multiplies every texel by an interpolated colour and a UBO
  value and one un-relaxed operand vetoes the expression - measured at 80.4 fps,
  i.e. no gain, both with and without varyings seeded. Precision-critical
  sources are few (gl_FragCoord cannot even hold a 3044-pixel x exactly), so
  tainting them and relaxing the rest is what actually pays.
- SPIR-V cannot see the bound formats - sampler2D yields vec4 whether the
  texture is RGBA8 or RGBA32F - so the decision is made per draw and passed in
  as a compile option, the same shape ExplicitLod0Sampling already uses.
  RelaxedFragmentPrecision is only requested when every sampled texture and
  every colour attachment is an 8-bit-or-less normalized format, where fp16's
  11-bit mantissa already carries the value exactly. Shaderpack HDR gbuffers,
  float data textures and 16-bit normalized targets therefore keep full
  precision, as do shaders that write gl_FragDepth or gl_SampleMask.
- LocalMultiStoreElim runs first: glslang emits function-local variables, and a
  load can never be relaxed, so without SSA promotion the analysis dies at the
  first temporary.
- WHY THIS IS PARKED: the retrace correctness gate never ran green. Every
  DirectVulkan retrace on Adreno 650 dies with DEVICE_LOST in
  UploadDirtyMipLevels on unmodified dev (pre-existing, device-gated), and on
  Adreno 830 - where the gate does pass on dev - minecraft-1.21.4-in-world times
  out at 900s with this change, which still needs explaining. Do not merge until
  that is understood and vanilla plus non-Photon shaderpack cases pass.
  (photon-v1.3b is broken on Adreno independently of this work.)
- The /sdcard/MG/exp_relaxed_precision_all and exp_no_relaxed_precision file
  toggles are development scaffolding for A/B measurement; they must go before
  this ships.
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