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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/12/2017 06:20 PM, Reid Kleckner
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:13 PM,
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<div>Can you elaborate why? I’m curious.</div>
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<div>The con of proposal c was that many passes would need
to learn about many region intrinsics. With tokens, you
only need to teach all passes about tokens, which they
should already know about because WinEH and other things
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<div>With tokens, we can add as many region-introducing
intrinsics as makes sense without any additional cost to
the middle end. We don't need to make one omnibus region
intrinsic set that describes every parallel loop
annotation scheme supported by LLVM. Instead we would
factor things according to other software design
considerations.</div>
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I think that, unless we allow frontends to add their own intrinsics
without recompiling LLVM, this severely restricts the usefulness of
this feature. The motivation here is to support frontends inserting
custom region annotations which are handled by custom passes the
frontends inject into the (end of the) pipeline.<br>
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-Hal<br>
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Hal Finkel
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Argonne National Laboratory</pre>
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