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

[Chandler Carruth]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Xinliang David Li <xinliangli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ignoring FE time which can be fully parallelized and assuming 10%
> compile time is spent in serial module passes, 25% time is spent in
> CGSCC pass, the maximum speed up that can be gained by using function
> level parallelism is less than 3x.  Even adding support for parallel
> compilation for leaves of CG in CGSCC pass won't help too much -- the
> percentage of leaf functions is < 30% in large apps I have seen.
>

Can you clarify what you're basing these assumption on or how you derived
your data?


> Module based parallelism proposed by Shuxin has max speed up of 10x,
> assuming body cloning does not add a lot overhead and build farm with
> hundred/thousands of nodes is used.
>

Body cloning does add some overhead, so that actually needs to be measured.
Also, many don't have such a build farm.
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