Bye Bye Cilk Plus: GCC Lightened By 82k L.O.C.
Earlier this month I reported on Intel's plans for removing Cilk Plus from GCC 8 since this parallel programming effort of theirs was depreciated in GCC 7 and hadn't seen much adoption. It's now official with the code being stripped out of the GCC 8 code-base.
As of this morning, it's official and Cilk Plus was removed. This marks an end to Cilk Plus in GCC that had only been in GCC since 5.0 and this multi-threaded parallel computing extension for C/C++ that was originally devised at MIT in the late 90's.
Similarly, Intel's LLVM/Clang fork with Cilk Plus support hasn't been updated since February 2016.
Removing Cilk Plus from the GCC code-base has resulted in 82,706 lines of code deleted across 382 files.
Onwards to OpenMP, OpenACC, and friends along with the other new features of GCC 8.
As of this morning, it's official and Cilk Plus was removed. This marks an end to Cilk Plus in GCC that had only been in GCC since 5.0 and this multi-threaded parallel computing extension for C/C++ that was originally devised at MIT in the late 90's.
Similarly, Intel's LLVM/Clang fork with Cilk Plus support hasn't been updated since February 2016.
Removing Cilk Plus from the GCC code-base has resulted in 82,706 lines of code deleted across 382 files.
Onwards to OpenMP, OpenACC, and friends along with the other new features of GCC 8.
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