[Open64-devel] Open64 Future: the next step.
Brought to you by:
ributzka,
suneeljain
|
From: Alban D. <alb...@st...> - 2004-08-02 09:44:31
|
Hi, I have been trying to summarize the current status of the discussion in the attached HTML document. I will post it tonight on the Open64 web site. Please send any comments you may have as some questions are still unanswered. Mainly: (1) What do we do next? I have listed some ideas already but feel free to add your own. (2) People have posted differences between GCC and Open64 from a technical point of view and from a community point of view. However my original question was meant from an ideological point of view: philosophically speaking, how does Open64 differ from GCC? For instance, GCC wants to be able to run everywhere and to compile for any architecture. I don't think that it is a goal for Open64. Then what is it? Performance? Research? A cleaner and more modern alternative? A base framework to be tuned for specific architectures/ I already listed my personal opinions about (1) in the HTML document. About (2), I would like to see Open64 as a single-architecture compiler with state-of-the-art optimizations and used as base framework for research and new architectures. That would then force us to choose a versatile target architecture (such as PPC) and minimize architecture-dependent optimizations. Alban. |