On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Iyer, Balaji V wrote: >> This letter describes the recently created GCC branch called "cilkplus" >> that ports the Intel(R) Cilk(TM) Plus language extensions to the C and C++ >> front-ends of gcc-4.7. We are looking for collaborators and advice as we >> proceed > > Enhance the gcc plugin infrastructure to permit the extension to be a pure > plugin. :-) I'm thinking about doing this for the Objective-C and > Objective-C++ languages, as a fun, get the feet wet project. We can rely > upon -flto to improve performance, should performance be a concern. > > The actual goal however, is to provide a way for people to play around and > add extensions, like say for example, the Apple Blocks extension, but without > rebuilding gcc, only using the standard plugin interface. I think longer > term, this can enhance the design and layout of gcc itself.
I of course like the notion of having data-parallel array statements in C just like in Fortran. If only because that makes developing middle-end arrays easier and a cross-frontend thing ;) I suppose the present implementation scalarizes those in the C frontend, but I didn't yet look at the branch (and seriously, a short overview of the code changes, like posting a ChangeLog, would be nice). Thanks, Richard.
