Intel Boosts parallel Progammicg

摘要

At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in July, Intel Corp. released an important update to its Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library, which helps Windows, Mac OS X and Linux developers write parallelized C++ code for advanced multi-core CPUs. For Windows users, a discreet plug-in enables TBB 2.1 to be set up inside any version of Visual Studio. James Reinders, chief evangelist and director of marketing and sales in the Intel Software Solutions Group, says TBB 2.1 is "a significant improvement" over the previous version that can help developers focus on achieving parallelism. "A lot of parallel programming in the past starts with thread management as the central concern.