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Re: OpenMP, HPC, and the future of GCC
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Scott Robert Ladd <scott at coyotegulch dot com>
- Cc: gcc List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gomp-discuss at nongnu dot org,Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:50:09 +0000
- Subject: Re: OpenMP, HPC, and the future of GCC
- References: <1044869907.750.53.camel@steven> <FKEAJLBKJCGBDJJIPJLJMEMMEKAA.scott@coyotegulch.com>
Scott Robert Ladd wrote:-
> Is GNU interested in supporting the HPC community? There are those of us
> willing to put in the work if there is reasonable expectation that the gcc
> "core" will accept it. But if HPC is going to be dismissed automatically, I
> don't see the point of making an effort to implement HPC features.
I'm making an effort with my parser, with no guarantee of acceptance,
simply because I want change badly enough. If you want OMP badly
enough, you should be prepared to put effort in without a guarantee of
success. The best way to get acceptance is to do it cleanly, and in
such a way that maintenance and performance of GCC is relatively
unaffected.
In my case I'm not sure I can do that, but I'm going to have a stab
anyway. Something will always be rescuable from it even if it's not
accepted; maybe the intermediate representation, or parsing ideas,
or forcing performance improvements to match, or ....
Neil.