From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi <giuliano.belinassi@usp.br>
Cc: GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
kernel-usp@googlegroups.com, gold@ime.usp.br,
alfredo.goldman@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Parallelize the compilation using Threads
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec82baec-cdcb-f551-611d-a8aec4844aad@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiYyc1kogmJ_5suHg+7fDaNjrYZnGjNGq4dew5uvc+w6-_BKQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-15 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 10:12 Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi
2018-11-15 11:44 ` Richard Biener
2018-11-15 15:54 ` Jonathan Wakely
2018-11-15 18:07 ` Jeff Law [this message]
2018-11-15 18:36 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-16 14:25 ` Martin Jambor
2018-11-16 22:40 ` Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi
2018-11-19 14:36 ` Richard Biener
2018-12-12 15:46 ` Giuliano Augusto Faulin Belinassi
2018-12-13 8:12 ` Bin.Cheng
2018-12-14 14:15 ` Giuliano Belinassi
2018-12-17 11:06 ` Richard Biener
2019-01-14 11:42 ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-01-14 12:23 ` Richard Biener
2019-01-15 21:45 ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-01-16 12:44 ` Richard Biener
2019-02-07 14:14 ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-02-11 21:46 ` Giuliano Belinassi
2019-02-12 14:12 ` Richard Biener
2019-02-16 4:35 ` Oleg Endo
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