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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Gary Funck <gary@intrepid.com>,
	 Gcc Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	 Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>,
	 Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	 Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com>,
	 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	 Nenad Vukicevic <nenad@intrepid.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Merge the GUPC branch into the GCC 6.0 trunk
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnaauru6.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565D8254.5070205@redhat.com> (Bernd Schmidt's message of "Tue, 1	Dec 2015 12:19:48 +0100")

Bernd Schmidt <bschmidt@redhat.com> writes:

> I'm worried we'll end up carrying
> something around as a burden that is of no practical use (considering
> we already support the more widespread OpenMP).

I'm not an expert on UPC, but from glancing over the description it
seems to target a distributed message passing programing model,
which is very different from OpenMP. I don't think any of the existing
parallelization models in gcc (OpenMP, cilk) support that niche.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-01 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-01  5:31 Gary Funck
2015-12-01 11:12 ` Richard Biener
2015-12-01 13:58   ` Jeff Law
2015-12-01 16:34   ` Gary Funck
2015-12-02  9:40     ` Richard Biener
2015-12-05 22:57       ` Gary Funck
2015-12-06  7:58         ` Richard Biener
2015-12-01 11:19 ` Bernd Schmidt
2015-12-01 15:11   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2015-12-01 15:23     ` Richard Biener
2015-12-02 17:08   ` Gary Funck

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