Re: [Gomp-discuss] Plan ... coments wanted !

[Steven Bosscher]

Op wo 29-01-2003, om 14:11 schreef Lars Segerlund:
> 
>   I think were starting to get down to the specifics of the problem :-)
> 
>   Also were getting to the interesting small things like collecting 
> examples, test cases and the tasks we have to acomplish.
> 
>   I will se if I can find some papers on massively parrallel compilers, 
> www.tera.com used to have them online, I don't know if this is true anymore.
> 
>   / regards, Lars.
> 
> Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > Op wo 29-01-2003, om 09:25 schreef Lars Segerlund:
> > 
>   [snip]
> >>
> >>   What I strive for is some general point as follows:
> >>
> >>    1. Start with the backend and code generation.
> > 
> > How would you test that work then?  Hmm, I think the first point you
> > brought up deserves a bit more attention...
> >
> 
>   Now in order to test this I was thinking of either modifying something 
> simple like treelang to emit the intermediate form we need, or 
> specificly build a small set of tools to emit test cases. This in order 
> not to complicate things too much before we have a 'proof of concept' 
> and something to work on. It would be sufficient to have some testcases 

Treelang unfortunately does not use the tree optimizer infrastructure,
so it is completely unsuitable for the purpose... But I like the idea of
having a small test front end to play with some of the ideas.

Greetz
Steven