sandeep soni <saintiw...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
That is not correct. OpenMP parallelizes loops within a single system, using pthreads. It does not parallelize loops across different systems. Ian
