On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > sandeep soni <saintiw...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm not really sure what you are asking. gcc supports OpenMP for >>> parallelizing loops. That is mostly done in the frontends. >> >> I have been told that openMP does parallelizing of loops, but these >> types of optimizations are generally done for a large clusters of >> computers (Is this correct?).Meaning thereby that these optimizations >> are not used for low scale systems. > > That is not correct. OpenMP parallelizes loops within a single > system, using pthreads. It does not parallelize loops across > different systems. > > Ian >
Well i was under a misconception then.Thanks for clearing this. -- cheers sandy
