Am 05.01.2011 21:24, schrieb Iain Buclaw:
== 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.
That really sounds tempting. Maybe we should bring this up on the main D
mailing list (whatever this is (d.learn ?)) for discussion. While this
might at first be a gdc only solution, having a general, developer
approved official D syntax for all three compilers (dmd, gdc, ldc) would
be great.
Too sad that i know nothing about the gdc / gcc internals at all or
compiler programming in general. Otherwise i would really be tempted to
start right now with implementing this ...
