From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronan Keryell Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:02:45 -0800 Message-ID: <87fw0ta4ai.fsf@an-dro.info.enstb.org> References: <87ehgd1qq2.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> <87k3q5zfaa.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , Jeff King , Shawn Pearce , "Jakub Narebski" , Christian Couder , Pat Thoyts , Paul Mackerras , Carlos =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= Nieto , Thomas Gummerer , David Michael Barr , Ramkumar Ramachandra , "Jens Lehmann" , Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 18 19:15:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7VFY-00055a-HG for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:15:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751485Ab3BRSPL (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:15:11 -0500 Received: from minou.info.enstb.org ([193.50.97.146]:44023 "EHLO minou.info.enstb.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751218Ab3BRSPK (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:15:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 555 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:15:09 EST Received: from an-dro.info.enstb.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minou.info.enstb.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2) with ESMTP id r1II2jHH011484; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:02:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87k3q5zfaa.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch> (Thomas Rast's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:46:05 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >>>>> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:46:05 +0100, Thomas Rast said: Thomas> The actual programming must be done in C using pthreads Thomas> for obvious reasons. Are there obvious reasons OpenMP would not be enough to do the job? It looks like a trade-off between the code readability & portability versus the real expressiveness of what parallelism control details are needed. -- Ronan KERYELL |\/ Phone: +1 650 386 6482 SILKAN Wild Systems |/) 4962 El Camino Real #201 K Ronan.Keryell@silkan.com Los Altos, CA 94022 |\ skype:keryell USA | \ http://silkan.com