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Re: Threading the compiler
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:46:58 -0800
- Subject: Re: Threading the compiler
- References: <D5E71E91-8A8D-4472-95DD-8C03C1E218C8@apple.com>
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:38:07PM -0800, Mike Stump wrote:
> How many hunks do we need, well, today I want 8 for 4.2 and 16 for
> mainline, each release, just 2x more. I'm assuming nice, equal sized
> hunks. For larger variations in hunk size, I'd need even more hunks.
>
> Or, so that is just an off the cuff proposal to get the discussion
> started.
>
> Thoughts?
Will use C++ help or hurt compiler parallelism? Does it really matter?
H.J.