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Re: multi-processor
- To: mike stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Subject: Re: multi-processor
- From: David Berthelot <davidb at Magma-DA dot COM>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:26:51 -0700
- CC: V dot Cayol at opgc dot univ-bpclermont dot fr, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200110181209.FAA15639@kankakee.wrs.com>
mike stump wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:56:19 +0200
> > From: Valerie Cayol <V.Cayol@opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr>
> > To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
>
> > I run gcc on a linux pentium II and I am trying to compile a C code
> > so that it uses the two processors I have on this machine. Is that
> > possible and what are the compilation instructions ?
>
> This is off topic for the gcc list. make -j4 is the compilation
> instruction. If that is the wrong answer, then the correct answer is
> no.
Personally I don't think it's off topic, may be that it would a nice
feature to have in gcc one day. Automatic algorithm parallelization,
that would rock ! And I think that many people would be interested,
and automatic multi-processing would bring software to the next
level...
David