[lkcl@lkcl.net: has gcc been reworked so that code/templates can be "outsourced" e.g. to perl yet?]

[Mike Stump]

Short answer, no.

I think we'd welcome patches to make gcc work great on boxes like this; 
but, it is a hard problem, and the right patches are invariably going 
to be hard to produce.  The problem is the right patches will need to 
be target independent, so that support could be added for any similar 
machine, and this makes it harder.  Also, the right patches will not 
farm out to perl, but rather will just do the right thing inside the 
confines of gcc.

See the OpenMP work and the autovectorization work for some ideas on 
how we are progressing gcc to deal with hardware like this.  To the 
extent technologies like that can make it perform well, I think that is 
the direction gcc is headed, beyond that, if you are interested in 
doing the work, you'd nee to start a discussion on the remaining 
unsolved problems and how to advance things to solve those issues.