[LLVMdev] Dependence Analysis [was: Flow-Sensitive AA]

[Vikram S. Adve]

Wojtek,

Please see David's message below.  Have you or can you check in your  
code, perhaps as a project for now?  That will allow us to start  
looking at it and perhaps collaborating on it.

--Vikram
Associate Professor, Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://llvm.org/~vadve




On Aug 20, 2008, at 3:05 PM, David Greene wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:07, Vikram S. Adve wrote:
>
>> At Illinois, we are working on a parallelizing compiler but we're at
>> an extremely early stage.  We too will need a dependence analysis
>> interface that can support fairly aggressive analysis, including
>> strong tests, direction vectors, perhaps distance vectors, and
>> dependence breaking conditions.  We were going to start with Wojtek's
>> interface as a strawman.  Collaborations on extending the interface  
>> or
>> implementation would be very welcome.  I'm copying Matthieu Delahaye
>> who is our lead programmer on this effort (he's also on llvmdev).
>
> Is there some code of the interface we can discuss?  I'm more than  
> happy to
> provide input, requirements, etc.  I'll contribute code where I can
> (management decision there, but I'm pretty sure I can sell it).
>
> If there's something that's been used for simple things now, let's  
> get it
> checked in and start refining it.
>
>                                                     -Dave