[geos-devel] OpenMP

[Daniel Baston]

I've always been a bit uneasy with the "magic" aspect of sticking #pragma
statements in the code, relative to alternatives like TBB or the parallel
algorithms in the C++ standard. But if it works and can be controlled at
runtime, sure?

Dan

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 4:18 PM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> Interested in knowing what people's general reaction to OpenMP work is.
>
> https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/468
>
> Going from PoC to something committable will involve a reasonable amount
> of CMake twiddling to detect support on multiple platforms and get the
> right linking info and so on. It can be flipped off as necessary. The
> biggest implementation thing missing is some kind of run-time API to signal
> to OpenMP the maximum number of cores to commit, since we'll want to at
> least wave our hands at trying to avoid capping out server resources.
>
> On the one hand it's kind of cool. On the other there's limited places to
> put it to work, and it adds complexity for certain.
>
> P.
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