[LLVMdev] [LLVM Dev] [Discussion] Function-based parallel LLVM backend code generation

[Shuxin Yang]

On 7/16/13 7:23 AM, Wan, Xiaofei wrote:
> Yes, the purpose is similar, we started this job from last year;
> But it Shuxin's solution is module based (correct me if I am wrong), we tried this solution and failed for many reasons, it is described in my design document
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QSkP6AumMCAVpgzwympD5pI3btPJt4SRgjY-vhyfySg/edit?usp=sharing
>
> we need discuss two solution and compare them, then adopt one solution
>
> The biggest difference of module based parallelism and function based parallelism are
> 1. how to partition module into different pieces which consume similar time, it is a difficult question
Why difficult?

> 2. How to make sure the generated binary is same each time
It depends on what is the same.  In the merged version, constant may 
keep one copy, while
in the partition version,  constant may be duplicated as the post-IPO 
passes may generated
some constant, and they cannot share with the same constant generated in 
other partitions.

All these issues don't sound to be a problem in practice.

> 3. if 2 can't be achieved, it is difficult to validate the correctness of parallelism

It is nothing about the correctness.