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title: 'Khronos Releases Maximal Reconvergence and Quad Control Extensions for Vulkan and SPIR-V'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/khronos-releases-maximal-reconvergence-and-quad-control-extensions-for-vulkan-and-spir-v'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/khronos-releases-maximal-reconvergence-and-quad-control-extensions-for-vulkan-and-spir-v.md'
date: '2024-01-25'
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#  Khronos Releases Maximal Reconvergence and Quad Control Extensions for Vulkan and SPIR-V 

  January 25th at 8:57am

 The SPIR™ Working Group has developed two new SPIR-V extensions (and corresponding Vulkan® extensions) to provide shader authors with more guarantees about the execution model of shaders. These extensions formalize behavior many authors have previously taken for granted, so that they can now be relied upon across the ecosystem. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-maximal-reconvergence-and-quad-control-extensions-for-vulkan-and-spir-v)

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