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Re: [RFC] Old school parallelization of WPA streaming
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <ak at linux dot intel dot com>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, dnovillo at google dot com, dmalcolm at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:41:26 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Old school parallelization of WPA streaming
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Hi,
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Richard Biener wrote:
> I also fail to see why threads should not work here. Maybe simply
> annotate gcc with openmp?
Threads simply don't work here, because the whole streamer infrastructure
(or anything else in GCC for that matter) isn't thread safe (you'd have to
have multiple streamer objects, multiple SCC finder objects, and you'd
have to audit everything for not using any other shared resources).
Fork-fire-forget is really a much simpler choice here IMO; no worries
about shared resources, less debug hassle.
Ciao,
Michael.