Likes: task parallelism via work-stealing from stacks, lexical scoping (eg., Cilk).
Dislikes: heavyweight task creation, crazy-wtf scoping (eg., OpenMP 3.0), heavyweight build processes with bad documentation (GCC), parallelism packages requiring manual lambda-lifting (TBB).
Hurray for Heidi methodically disentangling OpenMP scoping, task creation, and scheduling rules tonight :)
Anyways, our prototypes suggest we can decrease 20% of the time to maybe 3%.. hopefully we can find someone else to look at the components in the other 80% (which I'm *way* more optimistic about -- they didn't seem as much of a research challenge) and maybe even doing this with actual browser code.
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