Patent ID: 7825935

Claim:
A method for execution with a system including a tangible computer readable medium, the method for retrieving instructions from video memory utilizing a texture module in a graphics pipeline, comprising: (a) sending an instruction request to video memory, where a texture module in a graphics pipeline sends the instruction request to the video memory; and (b) receiving instructions from the video memory in response to the instruction request utilizing the texture module in the graphics pipeline; wherein an instruction set is received in response to the instruction request, the instruction set including a plurality of instructions such that the plurality of instructions are received at a single time for performing at least one optimization operation, the at least one optimization operation including at least one of combining at least a portion of the plurality of instructions, modifying at least a portion of the plurality of instructions, and deleting at least a portion of the plurality of instructions; wherein a particular texture ID is used to refer to the instruction set that is stored as an instruction texture and the particular texture ID is configured to use point sampling so the instruction set is passed without any processing.