A method and system are provided in which one or more processors may be operable to generate an intermediate representation of a shader source code, wherein the intermediate representation comprises one or more whole-program data flow graph representations of the shader source code. The one or more processors may be operable to generate machine code based on the generated intermediate representation of the shader source code. The one or more whole-program data flow graph representations of the shader source code may be generated utilizing a compiler front end. The machine code may be generated utilizing a compiler back end. The generated machine code may be executable by a graphics processor. The generated machine code may be executable by a processor comprising a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture. The generated machine code may be executable to perform coordinate and/or vertex shading of image primitives.