Re: OPENMP
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 15, 2013
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I addressed this to Matt because he seems to have good grasp of C and if Euphoria compiles with GCC then implementation of OPENMMP would take about two days of coding and two weeks of testing at most.
Yowza! "Two weeks at most." No f-ing way. I'm not even sure where and how we would use OPENMP in euphoria. I can't think of any place in the code where we could drop something like this in and see any significant difference. And making this work with translated code is probably no less of a project than adding any other sort of multi-threading support that's been thought about or discussed. Many parts of euphoria simply aren't re-entrant and need an overhaul to get there. And that's just the backend, not even touching what we'd want/need to change in the language itself to support this sort of thing.
Hmm. Can OPENMP be used as a drop-in replacement for pthreads, more or less?
There are many other Euphoria developers who also are equally able. Anybody whose mind can understand the "voids" of C language (my mind is completely void of it) can implement it easily.
Yes, I'm sure they could. But the implementation just doesn't fit into the margin of this post, eh?
Matt
I've spent years trying to understand the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. I still can't get it.
