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Re: Threading the compiler
On Nov 10, 2006, at 12:46 PM, H. J. Lu wrote:
Will use C++ help or hurt compiler parallelism? Does it really matter?
I'm not an expert, but, in the simple world I want, I want it to not
matter in the least. For the people writing most code in the
compiler, I want clear simple rules for them to follow.
For example, google uses mapreduce http://labs.google.com/papers/
mapreduce.html as a primitive, and there are a few experts that
manage that code, and everyone else just mindlessly uses it. The
rules are explained to them, and they just follow the rules and it
just works. No locking, no atomic, no volatile, no cleaver lock free
code, no algorithmic changes (other than decomposing into isolated
composable parts) . I'd like something similar for us.