NVIDIA's PTX Back-End For GCC Has Been Published

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA's PTX Back-End For GCC Has Been Published

As part of the work to bring OpenACC 2.0 and NVIDIA GPU support to GCC, a large set of patches were published this morning for adding NVIDIA's PTX back-end to the Free Software Foundation's compiler...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzOTE

[dimko]

Question

Will it give GCC compiled apps any boost on execution?
I can see FFMPEG and similar projects can seriously take advantage of that.
Or even GCC itself. Like kernel compilation for example.
Also, only some special apps can take advantage of this new thingy or theoretically all?(providing they are multiprocess apps)
is it integer vs floating point sorta thing?

[Annabel]

Nice news! Waiting for OpenCL backend

Will it give GCC compiled apps any boost on execution?

Only to the applications that use OpenACC

[smitty3268]

Only to the applications that use OpenACC

And the nvidia binary drivers.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Will it give GCC compiled apps any boost on execution?
I can see FFMPEG and similar projects can seriously take advantage of that.
Or even GCC itself. Like kernel compilation for example.
Also, only some special apps can take advantage of this new thingy or theoretically all?(providing they are multiprocess apps)
is it integer vs floating point sorta thing?

They're already leverage OpenCL. Get in line.