On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 at 19:59:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 at 17:46:39 UTC, Matthias
Bentrup wrote:
Do you propose any changes to the language syntax for
auto-vectorization and whole program optimization ?
You mean semantics.
As far as I
can see, those are compiler features, they are not related to
the language syntax/semantics at all.
How you structure an array of structs affects performance. What
you do in loops affects ability to auto vectorize. How will the
compiler know how to lay out arrays of structs if you don't
have whole program optimization? How can you be maximize the
ability to vectorize processing if you don't deliberately
design for it? It affects language design, library design and
application architecture.
Languages like Chapel and X10 are already better candidates in
the HPC community, unless D inherits the same features.
--
Paulo
