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Re: Threading the compiler

From: Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:42:32 +0100
Subject: Re: Threading the compiler
References: <D5E71E91-8A8D-4472-95DD-8C03C1E218C8@apple.com> <20061110204658.GA15844@lucon.org>

On 2006-11-10, at 21:46, H. J. Lu wrote:

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?

It should be helpfull, because it seriously helps in keeping the semantical scope of data items at bay.

Marcin Dalecki

References:
- Threading the compiler
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Threading the compiler
  - From: H. J. Lu

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