On Wed, 22 May 2013, Jeff Law wrote: > On 05/22/2013 03:58 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > > Regarding commonality between OpenMP and Cilk, note also the new C > > Parallel Language Extensions WG14 study group chaired by Clark Nelson and > > aiming to propose a standard set of C extensions for parallel programming, > > announced yesterday on the WG14 reflector. I don't know if anyone here is > > intending to be involved in that. > > > > http://www.open-std.org/mailman/listinfo/cplex > > > > I'm OK with the array notation patch as it stands now, although certainly > > as discussed today there is still some scope for further improvements. > I'm aware of efforts to standardize the Cilk+ style extensions for ISO C. Is > the new study group effectively that effort or something different?
"This proposal is expected to combine the best ideas from Cilk and OpenMP, two of the most widely-used and well-established parallel language extensions for the C language family.". See page 10 of the draft Delft minutes <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1693.pdf> for more discussion. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
