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Re: Announcing the Port of Intel(r) Cilk (TM) Plus into GCC
- From: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- To: "Iyer, Balaji V" <balaji dot v dot iyer at intel dot com>
- Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:12:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: Announcing the Port of Intel(r) Cilk (TM) Plus into GCC
- References: <2950715866004049A240A2F9BB410E7315F215416F@azsmsx502.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Iyer, Balaji V wrote:
> This letter describes the recently created GCC branch called "cilkplus" that ports the Intel(R) Cilk(TM) Plus language extensions to the C and C++ front-ends of gcc-4.7. We are looking for collaborators and advice as we proceed
Enhance the gcc plugin infrastructure to permit the extension to be a pure plugin. :-) I'm thinking about doing this for the Objective-C and Objective-C++ languages, as a fun, get the feet wet project. We can rely upon -flto to improve performance, should performance be a concern.
The actual goal however, is to provide a way for people to play around and add extensions, like say for example, the Apple Blocks extension, but without rebuilding gcc, only using the standard plugin interface. I think longer term, this can enhance the design and layout of gcc itself.