[OT] ta-spring

[Michael Schmiedgen]

On 29.01.2014 16:42, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2014, at 15:37, Michael Schmiedgen <schmiedgen at gmx.net> wrote:
>> On 29.01.2014 16:16, David Chisnall wrote:
>>> On 29 Jan 2014, at 15:08, Michael Schmiedgen <schmiedgen at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> I thought OpenMP will be an integral part of LLVM/clang in near future,
>> at least the front-end part? It seems there are plans to even integrate
>> the runtime in the llvm project source tree:
>>
>> http://openmp.llvm.org/
>>
>> Ok, so llvm/clang 3.4 obviously will not ship with OpenMP, but maybe
>> later versions.
>
> Active development happens in Intel's tree, and is slowly being merged upstream.  Eventually, Clang will have full OpenMP 4 support, but Intel's tree will have it first and there is likely to be a lag before it makes it into mainline clang.
>
> As such, it would make sense to have a port as a stop-gap until it is ready.
>

Ah, ok, that makes sense. Thanks for explanation.

BTW very amusing *and* very informative bsdtalk/vBSDCon2013 talk a while
ago, thanks for that! :)

Cheers
   Michael