Would that be a textual format that is essentially already compiled, or do you mean a textual format that is just source (like glsl)? The latter historically ha

Would that be a textual format that is essentially already compiled, or do you mean a textual format that is just source (like glsl)? The latter historically has had a bunch of issues with compiler incompatibility across vendors, so I assume you mean the former. But what is then the benefit of having essentially textual bytecode compared to binary?