[LLVMdev] Vectorization: Next Steps

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Mon Feb 6 14:28:24 PST 2012


On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Hal Finkel wrote:
>> If you do not want to use polly, you could use ISL
>> http://freecode.com/projects/isl to set up the dependence problem and
>> use ISL's ILP to solve it.
> 
> isl is an LGPL project. It is not clear to me what the general consensus
> would be on having a core analysis pass carry an LGPL dependency.

This is fine for something that wants to live out of tree or be a secondary subproject, but isn't acceptable for something that wants to go into the mainline llvm repository and be a default part of the compiler.

-Chris



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