Warner Mach wrote:
Intel is going to open-source a C++ compiler for parallel Processing:
http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5894
I believe that's not quite it... they are not throwing out a compiler,
but a C++ library.
They are open-sourcing the C++ template library used for implementing
parallel processing programs - the Thread Building Blocks (TBB) library,
which competes for developer "mindshare" with the standard POSIX
threads approach and the various Windows approaches.
This is an interesting announcement if you do a lot of C/C++
programming involving threads, and would like it to be portable
across many systems... perhaps, if that description fits your
needs, TBB might be interesting.
I wouldn't mind seeing TBB ported to simply using ATTACH/WAIT/POST
for implementing its threading (for example.) That would really
speak to it's goal of platform independence.
- Dave Rivers -
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