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The current usage of software-based texture operations in the oneAPI implementation puts additional register pressure on the GPU compiler during register allocation. And it also creates code that requires maintenance. This commit is intended to address this situation by utilizing a recently productized SYCL bindless texture API to enable HW-based texture operations using Intel GPUs' hardware sampler. This currently translates to 1-11% rendering speedups (scene-specific) on my Arc A770 and Arc B580. At the moment, there are small performance regressions with NanoVDB texture operations on Arc B580 and small performance regressions in shade surface MNEE and Raytrace kernels on Arc A770, but they look recoverable and will be handled in the future. Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133457
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