I've always been a bit uneasy with the "magic" aspect of sticking #pragma statements in the code, relative to alternatives like TBB or the parallel algorithms in the C++ standard. But if it works and can be controlled at runtime, sure?
Dan On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 4:18 PM Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> wrote: > Interested in knowing what people's general reaction to OpenMP work is. > > https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/468 > > Going from PoC to something committable will involve a reasonable amount > of CMake twiddling to detect support on multiple platforms and get the > right linking info and so on. It can be flipped off as necessary. The > biggest implementation thing missing is some kind of run-time API to signal > to OpenMP the maximum number of cores to commit, since we'll want to at > least wave our hands at trying to avoid capping out server resources. > > On the one hand it's kind of cool. On the other there's limited places to > put it to work, and it adds complexity for certain. > > P. > _______________________________________________ > geos-devel mailing list > geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel >
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