On Feb 27, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Alex Drinkwater wrote:

I recently read somewhere GPUs generally do not implement branching conditional properly, and will actually evaluate both cases, then choose between the results.
Is this the case,

Frequently yes, by design, but sometimes no, it depends on the hardware capabilities and whether the complexity of the branch caused a fallback to software. There's a few very descriptive posts about this on the mac-opengl mailing list.
Search the archives for +"Nick Burns" +"conditional"
http://search.lists.apple.com/

and if so, is there some way to force only certain parts of a GLSL shader program to be executed?

No, aside from taking out the conditional.

Allan
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Allan Schaffer
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