Autoparallelization

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Oct 3 17:13:00 GMT 2006


Zdenek Dvorak wrote:

>> I have started going through the code.  One question regarding the
>> approach: Why didn't you folks generate OMP_PARALLEL/OMP_FOR?  The
>> intent was for auto-parallelization passes to target the OMP IL, not
>> libgomp.

While not an expert on libgomp, I would certainly prefer that we target 
the OMP_* expressions as well, if possible.  It might be possible, in 
future, to lower those to something other than libgomp; by confining the 
lowering to a single phase, we design for that possible future.

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Mark Mitchell
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