GCC 4.5 Steps Closer To Release

[smitty3268]

Hmm, I should really do some research but I'm too lazy so I'll just tell you what I think I remember about graphite.

Which is that it's not really about creating threads like that, but instead fully utilizing SIMD hardware.

So if you have a for-loop which does stuff to an array, instead of just trying to optimize the loop as much as possible graphite would recognize that it could replace that with some SSE code instead and do it in much fewer instructions. Of course it gets very complicated because they have to get it working with complicated code that has dependencies, and other types of code than just for-loops, but I think that's the general idea.

[duby229]

I understand that graphite has been improved quite a bit in version.....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of graphite is it takes code written in C or C++ and runs it through a complex algorithm. Which finds areas of that code that have no dependencies on each other and can safely run simultaneously. Then assigns them threads so that the kernels scheduler can execute them on multiple cpu cores at the same time.

Do I understand this correctly? Does this mean we can now get multi-core acceleration of single threaded code?

EDIT: If so, then it looks like a software version of ATi's Ultra Threaded Dispatch Processor as seen here. But made for a scale of processor as seen here.

EDIT2: Also if so, what's the limit to parallelism? How far will it scale? 2 threads? How much parallelism can you actually get out of single threaded code written in C? And can it extract further parallelism out of well written multi-threaded code?

[Raine]

Thank you so much!

[bugmenot]

What's is comming new to 4.5 release?

I'd say the most important changes are the new link time optimizer, which will allow better interprocedural optimization, support for the Atom as target and the usual C++0x improvements (lambda, yay!).

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html

[Apopas]

I hope better optimizations...

[Raine]

What's is comming new to 4.5 release?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC 4.5 Steps Closer To Release

Novell's Richard Guenther has issued a GCC 4.5 status report this morning as yesterday this next major version of the GNU Compiler Collection had left "Stage 3" and is now entering a period in which only regression fixes and documentation work will take place.The first GCC 4.5 release candidate will be made once there are no longer any P1 regressions remaining. As of this morning, of the P1 regressions there were 26, 93 regressions of P2 priority, and then just four P3 regressions...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzc2MQ