Difficulties
Automatic parallelization by compilers or tools is very difficult due to the following reasons:
- dependence analysis is hard for code using indirect addressing, pointers, recursion, and indirect function calls;
- loops have an unknown number of iterations;
- accesses to global resources are difficult to coordinate in terms of memory allocation, I/O, and shared variables.
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