Re: Source-to-Source compilers?

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:01:10 +0100

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:01:10 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-01-039
Keywords: parallel, tools
Posted-Date: 18 Jan 2009 08:05:20 EST

Simone Pellegrini schrieb:


> I am working in the optimization of parallel applications for multi-
> core architectures. We don't want to auto-parallelize code but take a
> parallel application (mainly written in C/C++ or Fortran) and produce
> the optimized version via application of transformations.


I.e. you want parallelization at compile time, not at runtime?


> Now most of these transformation should be done at source level, so
> our need is for something able to do source-to-source compilation. As
> now, the only tools that fulfill our requirements are 2.


IMO the transformation should be integrated into the single compilation
pass, based on the AST. An (intermediate) source file could be provided
for debugging, but is not required for the generation of executable code.


DoDi



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