Star Intel Open Sources Multicore Programming Tool
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jul 2007 13:48 UTC, submitted by Moochman
Intel "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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RE[3]: Intel compiler
by kaiwai on Thu 26th Jul 2007 02:17 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Intel compiler"
kaiwai
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2005-07-06

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?


How so? M:N threading is complex to implement, but when done right, it can out perform the competition. Take Tru64 for instance, which uses M:N threading.

Its one of those things in the IT world, great on paper, a real bitch to implement in real life, but when done well, does perform well.

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