[llvm-dev] [RFC] IR-level Region Annotations

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Jan 12, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> On 01/12/2017 06:20 PM, Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com <mailto:mehdi.amini at apple.com>> wrote:
>> Can you elaborate why? I’m curious.
>> 
>> 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 use them.
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> I think that, unless we allow frontends to add their own intrinsics without recompiling LLVM, this severely restricts the usefulness of this feature.

I’m not convinced that “building a frontend without recompiling LLVM while injecting custom passes” is a strong compelling use-case, i.e. can you explain why requiring such use-case/frontends to rebuild LLVM is so limiting?

Thanks,

— 
Mehdi

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