[Open64-devel] Open64 Future: the next step.

[Alban D. <alb...@st...>]

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.