Is gcc optimized for thread level parallelism?

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:35:29PM +0000, x z wrote:
> Is gcc optimized for thread level parallelism, in view of the recent 
> development of SMT and multicore architectures?  

No.

> And does gcc support any NUMA (non-uniform memory access) machines?  That 
> is, does gcc
> a) automatically parallelize the program for as many processors in the 
> machine as possible?

No.

> b) take advantage of the non-uniform memory access (i.e. co-locate a thread 
> and the data it needs on a particular processor)?

No.