sharing graal experiments

[Christian Thalinger]

On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:46 PM, "Deneau, Tom" <tom.deneau at amd.com> wrote:

> Just to make sure I understand,
> you are saying we do not need to create a separate sumatra/sumatra-dev/graal repo, we can just use Sumatra/Sumatra-dev/hotspot, which will occasionally be synced with graal/graal
> and graal/graal will occasionally be synced with some development version of hotspot.

Yes, that's what I thought would work best.  Not sure if John has other plans.

-- Chris

> 
> -- Tom
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Thalinger [mailto:christian.thalinger at oracle.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 2:10 PM
>> To: Thomas Wuerthinger
>> Cc: Deneau, Tom; graal-dev at openjdk.java.net; sumatra-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: sharing graal experiments
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 18, 2013, at 9:37 AM, Thomas Wuerthinger
>> <thomas.wuerthinger at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Tom,
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest a combination of option 1 and 2: Experiments go into a sumatra-
>> dev/graal fork. Stable changes to Graal to make it a more suitable compiler
>> for the GPU are added to graal/graal. We can help making those changes.
>> 
>> I concur.  The PTX port should go into graal/graal because it's the first GPU
>> architecture for Graal and it will be helpful to make infrastructure changes
>> based on what we need for that.
>> 
>> Other GPU architectures can go to sumatra/sumatra-dev/hotspot first and later
>> be integrated in graal/graal.
>> 
>> -- Chris
>> 
>>> 
>>> The Graal repository is a fork of the HotSpot repository. So, pulling in
>> changes from graal/graal into sumatra/sumatra-dev/hotspot should work.
>>> 
>>> - thomas
>>> 
>>> On Feb 18, 2013, at 8:52 AM, "Deneau, Tom" <tom.deneau at amd.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A repository question...
>>>> 
>>>> Some sumatra folks are or will be doing some experiments under the graal
>> tree.  How should these be made available to the rest of the Sumatra team?
>>>> 
>>>> *         would we make our own Sumatra-dev/graal fork of the graal
>> repository ?
>>>> 
>>>> *         or would we share such things in some way under the existing
>> graal repository?
>>>> 
>>>> *         or share them as patches to graal posted in our "scratch"
>> directory.
>>>> 
>>>> I would vote for the first option above but am open to other opinions.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Tom
>>> 
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