== Quote from Scorn (sc...@scorn.net)'s article > I too wonder how much work it would be to support OpenMP in gdc. From > http://www.drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/226300277 it seems to be > that > there is also quite a lot of magic on the compiler side (but which could already > be in the gcc parts). Maybe a concurrent garbage collector would also be > needed > (Leandro Lucarella worked on this for his diploma thesis). > I hope someone can help to clear this up. If not OpenMP then at least a better > support for multicore programming in one way or another will be really important > for the future of D.
Would take just a little bit of work, yes. ;) Most of the heavy duty work for GCC OMP support is done by their own C parser/internal codegen functions. So to start, will need to rewrite half of what is there for the DMDFE AST.
