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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:50:02AM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:

> 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.

 i remembered the reason why i would like to see this sort of thing
 be possible in gcc.

 it's because i am looking to recommend to a company that is
 doing a parallel processor design that they also provide a
 vector processor unit.

 a la 8-bit but 32 units long.  that sort of thing.

 if gcc don't make the grade as a viable vector processing aware
 compiler or as part of a vector processing aware toolchain,
 the recommendation ain't gonna happen - i've seen what happens
 when you don't have a good enough development toolchain.
 
 companies fail.

 l.