Re: [Gomp-discuss] GOMP Requirements v1.1

[Ioannis E. Venetis]

> > The real question is: Does GCC care about being competitive in terms of
> > performance? If intellectual freedom is the only goal, then we can by
> > all means approach this from a generic perspective. If we want a
> > compiler than is a practical alternative to commercial products, we need
> > to concern ourselves with performance issues.
>
>
> The generic approach does not preclude OpenMP performance.  I think if
> you would examine the commercial implementations, they go for a
> generic approach. They hide the details of using LWP (lightweight
> processes), SPROCS, threads, or whatever threading model in the
> support routines.

Thank you Ross, this was exactly what I was also trying to say, but 
probably my wording was really bad :-)

>
> The user may have no choice of the threading model
> but the threading model is not in the generated user's code.  It is in
> the library.
>

And this is my proposal. Give the user the chance to select even the 
threading model, through it's own library.

Ioannis