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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Their marketing material almost implies that the library itself goes through the trouble of implementing yet another scheduler in addition to the one the OS already has.
Ohhh, another M:N threading model. When are they going to learn that userspace thread scheduling just doesn't perform very well? Why can't they just split the process into threads and let the kernel schedule them?