[LLVMdev] Parallelization

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Gokul Ramaswamy,

>     I am new to LLVM. So please help me out. Here is what I am trying to
> achieve:
>
>        If there are 2 statements in a source program -
>           S1;
>           S2;
>
>        and I know these is no data and control dependency between them and
> both take large amount of time to execute. So I want to execute them
> in parallel.
>
>        So as S1 starts executing, I want to launch another thread and
> execute S2 in parallel.
>
>    I need help on how to launch a new thread and schedule some specific
> code on this new thread. I searched for it but did not get satisfiable
> results. Please help me out LLVM Developers.

llvm-gcc and dragonegg support GOMP (gnu open-mp).  The way it works is that the
front-end lowers parallel constructs into library calls, extra functions and so
on.

Ciao, Duncan.

>
> Regards,
> Gokul Ramaswamy H.C
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