On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote:
> I'm not really sure what you are asking. gcc supports OpenMP for > parallelizing loops. That is mostly done in the frontends. I have been told that openMP does parallelizing of loops, but these types of optimizations are generally done for a large clusters of computers (Is this correct?).Meaning thereby that these optimizations are not used for low scale systems. What i aim for in parallelizing, is to improve the speed of execution of relatively simple tools used for distribution of packages.(for eg: speed improvements in using dwarf utilities and elf utilities during distribution of software to test for backward compatibilities and dependency checks) for modestly multicore (2 or 4 to start out) processors.A few ideas in this regard are brewing in which i will be trying out along with my team in the near future. I will also be happy to know if there are any good ideas to improve the speed of execution by optimizing the loops with a focus to parallelize them than the one which are in place in gcc so that i can try this out with my team. -- cheers sandy
