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.
