On 11/15/18 3:29 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > >> 2. Did I correctly understand the goal of the parallelization? Can >> anyone provide extra details to me? > > You may want to search the mailing list archives since we had a > student application (later revoked) for the task with some discussion. > > In my view (I proposed the thing) the most interesting parts are > getting GCCs global state documented and reduced. The parallelization > itself is an interesting experiment but whether there will be any > substantial improvement for builds that can already benefit from make > parallelism remains a question. Agreed. Driving down the amount of global state is good in and of itself. It's also a prerequisite for parallelizing GCC itself using threads.
I suspect driving down global state probably isn't that interesting for a master's thesis though :-) jeff
