On Nov 10, 2006, at 12:46 PM, H. J. Lu wrote:
Will use C++ help or hurt compiler parallelism? Does it really matter?
I'm not an expert, but, in the simple world I want, I want it to not matter in the least. For the people writing most code in the compiler, I want clear simple rules for them to follow.
For example, google uses mapreduce http://labs.google.com/papers/ mapreduce.html as a primitive, and there are a few experts that manage that code, and everyone else just mindlessly uses it. The rules are explained to them, and they just follow the rules and it just works. No locking, no atomic, no volatile, no cleaver lock free code, no algorithmic changes (other than decomposing into isolated composable parts) . I'd like something similar for us.
