Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:35:41 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP Message-ID: <elrr0d$8g1$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200612140917.25523@aldan> References: <20061213192150.CF83D16A417@hub.freebsd.org> <200612131711.50921.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <4580DFAB.3080601@FreeBSD.org> <200612140917.25523@aldan>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Although commercial compilers (like Intel's icc for Windows and Linux, or Sun > Studio on Solaris, or Visual Studio on Windows) have supported OpenMP pragmas > for a while (icc even allows parallelizing accross multiple machines), > gcc-4.2 is the first release of GCC that supports it (with `-fopenmp' flag). > > I anticipate, "out-of-the-box" OpenMP support will soon be one of the > required "check-boxes" for an OS to be considered for many things... For what it's worth: +1. It's going to be practically required even for medium-performance applications as CPU clock rate stagnate and more cores are grown. I've recently seen a 16-cpu x86 server in 1U! (granted, 8 of those are hyperthreaded "CPUs" ;) )
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