[LLVMdev] [Openmp-dev] Future of the LLVM OpenMP runtime

["C. Bergström"]

On 02/28/14 04:20 AM, Rick Mann wrote:
> Tangentially related, I have a question:
>
> I don't know, well, anything about how OpenMP is implemented. But does it make sense to use Grand Central Dispatch on platforms that support it (instead of, I assume, pthreads)?
We played with implementing OpenMP 3.x tasks on top of libdispatch and 
while we got it to work - there was some scalability of the scheduling 
across a lot of cores which would probably need to be addressed. For 
systems with 4-8 cores I doubt it would ever cause a significant problem 
though.