[LLVMdev] [RFC][PATCH][OPENCL] synchronization scopes redux

[Chandler Carruth]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <
sameer.sahasrabuddhe at amd.com> wrote:

> Ping! We need to close on whether everyone is convinced that symbolic
> memory scopes have a significant advantage over opaque numbers. Either of
> them will be examined by optimizations using a target-implemented API. I
> personally don't think that readability in the LLVM text format is worth
> the effort, especially given that address spaces work well enough with
> opaque numbers.


I am much more comfortable with symbolic memory scopes. The reason I feel
this way is actually because there *is* a particular ordering of them that
the target will mandate. Having an ordering but having it *not* be the
order of the numbers used seems too actively confusing to me.
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