Parallel compilers

Gabriele Farina <darkbard@gmail.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:36:29 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Gabriele Farina <darkbard@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: parallel, question
Posted-Date: 05 Sep 2009 00:05:43 EDT

Hello everyone,


I'd like to know if someone has some information to give me about
implementing a compiler that's able to split the compilation process
in parallel steps, to fully take advantage or multicore/multiprocessor
machines.
I don't have any knownledge about that and I didn't find any
interesting lecture, so any advice would be really appreciated.


Thanks,
Gabriele
[I suppose some of the optimization analysis might be amenable to working in parallel,
but the front end lexer and parser are pretty serial. I think you'll find that the
way people use multi-processor systems is by using tools like gmake that can run the
compilation steps for several modules at the same time. -John]


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