OpenMP, HPC, and the future of GCC

[Jan Hubicka]

> I agree. Good words.
> 
> Is GNU interested in supporting the HPC community? There are those of us

I think the question should be reversed.  Is HPC comunity interested in
supporting GNU?  I don't think anyone working on GCC would not like it
to be usefull for more people than it is now and generate better code.
To make this happen, someone must realize it.  GNU can't do it, someone
who actually needs the feature has to make this happen.

> willing to put in the work if there is reasonable expectation that the gcc
> "core" will accept it. But if HPC is going to be dismissed automatically, I

This is problematic.  Since GCC maintainers can not implement all the
HPC support themselves, they can not give in advance an promise that
they will accept the code.  Every new feature needs to be implemented
first and then it needs to be judged on how it works, how maintainable
the code is before it can be accepted for mainline GCC.

I personally would like to see GCC usefull for numeric computing too, so
I would like to help with the project if it is created as my time
allows.

Honza
> don't see the point of making an effort to implement HPC features.
> 
> One purported goal of the GNU Project is to provide free alternatives to
> commercial products. Is GCC willing to surrender HPC to commercial compiler
> vendors?
> 
> ..Scott
> 
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