[LLVMdev] LLVM multithreading

Aliaksei Zasenka listhex at gmail.com
Fri May 30 02:54:36 PDT 2014


AFAIK, LLVM supports concurrent execution of its API on the LLVM Context
level.
You can see http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#threads-and-llvm

Alexey


2014-05-30 12:18 GMT+03:00 Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org>:

> Hi Jasmin,
>
> Creating threads is the responsibility of the operating system or runtime
> system. It will provide functions that can be called from assembly language
> or from a language such as C.
>
> You can of course write such C programs (or other languages) and then
> compile them using Clang & LLVM, but LLVM itself does not know what, for
> example, pthread_create() means. It's just a library function.
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Jasmin Jahic <jasmin.jahic at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm interested in development of multi threaded applications using LLVM.
>> I would like to ask, is there a possibility in LLVM to create several
>> threads, executing software concurrently, while sharing the same memory
>> space?
>> If yes, on which level this can be done (e.g. context, execution
>> engine,...)?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jasmin JAHIC
>>
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