"Fedor V. Sergeev" wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:00:42AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > (Slightly offtopic (for this list):) Are there any papers about how the
> > "-xautopar" option detects chunks of code which can run in parallel and
> > how threads are managed (e.g. creation, lifetime, management etc.) ?
> 
> I'm not sure about papers, but if you know what OpenMP is

... yes, I do... :-)

> I can word it this way
>   - loosely speaking autopar "inserts" OpenMP pragmas into the code for you
> 
> Both OpenMP and autopar use the same "multitasking" runtime (libmtsk).
> The only difference is that autopar is majorly loop-oriented for now.

Umpf... are there any plans to allow some kind of non-loop concurrency
for -xautopar ?

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Bye,
Roland

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