Improving Parallelism in Git and GNU Compiler Collection: Strategies, Difficulties, and Lessons Learned
Matheus Tavares Bernardino, Giuliano Belinassi, Paulo Meirelles, Eduardo Guerra, Alfredo Goldman · IEEE Software · 2020
This article presents approaches for performance improvements into two large and well-known open source projects, Git and GNU Compiler Collection, using parallel programming. We share the difficulties faced and the strategies used, concluding with a set of lessons learned that are useful to similar parallelization processes.