Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jul 2007 13:48 UTC, submitted by Moochman
"Intel announced today that they're open-sourcing their cross-platform Thread Building Blocks 2.0 (TBB) template library. While the company contributes code to open-source project like the Linux kernel and drivers, the opening of TBB marks the first time that Intel has taken a commercial tool and open-sourced it, making it Intel's largest open-source commitment to date."
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2006-05-02
Intel will probably never release their compiler as free and/or open source software simply because they couldn't even if they wanted to. As with several other compilers (e.g. Comeau, Portland Group, etc.), the front-end is licensed from the Edison Design Group. I don't believe that it would be possible (in a reasonable time frame) to rewrite the backend to use an open-source front-end.
More info:
http://www.edg.com/
http://support.intel.com/support/performancetools/c/windows/sb/CS-0...