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Re: [lkcl@lkcl.net: has gcc been reworked so that code/templates can be "outsourced" e.g. to perl yet?]
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:50:02AM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> See the OpenMP work and the autovectorization work for some ideas on
> how we are progressing gcc to deal with hardware like this. To the
> extent technologies like that can make it perform well, I think that is
> the direction gcc is headed, beyond that, if you are interested in
> doing the work, you'd nee to start a discussion on the remaining
> unsolved problems and how to advance things to solve those issues.
i remembered the reason why i would like to see this sort of thing
be possible in gcc.
it's because i am looking to recommend to a company that is
doing a parallel processor design that they also provide a
vector processor unit.
a la 8-bit but 32 units long. that sort of thing.
if gcc don't make the grade as a viable vector processing aware
compiler or as part of a vector processing aware toolchain,
the recommendation ain't gonna happen - i've seen what happens
when you don't have a good enough development toolchain.
companies fail.
l.