Author: bart Date: 2008-03-10 20:05:57 +0000 (Mon, 10 Mar 2008) New Revision: 7635
Log: Added information about OpenMP. Modified: trunk/exp-drd/docs/README.txt Modified: trunk/exp-drd/docs/README.txt =================================================================== --- trunk/exp-drd/docs/README.txt 2008-03-10 20:05:07 UTC (rev 7634) +++ trunk/exp-drd/docs/README.txt 2008-03-10 20:05:57 UTC (rev 7635) @@ -30,10 +30,16 @@ all possible data races or deadlocks via source reading. This is why tools for detecting data races and deadlocks at runtime are essential. -The de facto standard library for multithreading with the C and C++ -programming languages on Unix systems is the POSIX threads library, -also known as pthreads. The exp-drd tool has been developed for -multithreaded software that uses the POSIX threads library. +There exist parallellizing compilers that give good results for a +certain class of high performance computing (HPC) applications. If you +are not using a parallelizing compiler, you have to specify explicitly +in the source code how your program should use threads. How to specify +this depends on the programming language and the operating system you +are using. The two options on Unix systems are for C and C++ are the +POSIX threads library and OpenMP. OpenMP is best suited for HPC +applications. For other applications, e.g. server or embedded +software, you can use the POSIX threads library directly or a library +that is built on top of it. Data Races @@ -240,14 +246,14 @@ Acknowledgements ---------------- -The exp-drd tool is built on top of the Valgrind core and VEX, which +The DRD tool is built on top of the Valgrind core and VEX, which proved to be an excellent infrastructure for building such a tool. During 2006, the early versions of drd were improved via helpful feedback of Julian Seward and Nicholas Nethercote. Any bugs are my responsibility of course. -Some of the regression tests used to test exp-drd were developed by +Some of the regression tests used to test DRD were developed by Julian Seward as regression tests for the Helgrind tool. I would also like to thank Michiel Ronsse for introducing me a long ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-developers mailing list Valgrind-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers
