Intel Releases Threading Library Under GPL 2

littlefoo writes "Intel Software Dispatch have announced the availability of the Threading Building Blocks (TBB) template library under the GPL v2 with the run-time exception — so this previously commercial only package is now open for all the use, whether for open-source projects or commercial offerings (although they are explicitly encouraging open source use). The interface is more task-based then thread-based, but with a somewhat different view of things than, e.g. OpenMP. From the Intel release: 'Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. Threading Building Blocks is not just a threads-replacement library. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability.'"

Comments

Re:task based then thread based

[Holi]

>There are 11 types of people in the world, those who know binaries and those who don't.

Obviously you are in the those who don't group.

Re:task based then thread based

[dubbreak]

I fixed it for him:

There are 11 types of people in the world: those who know binaries, those who don't and those who don't.

The then/than mixup is kind of funny though. Reminds me of something I read in the engineering faculty on a white board (I assume a first year engineer):
"I'd rather be retarded then do my engineering homework.."

Looks like he had the pre-requisite fulfilled and should have just got on with the homework.

Re:task based then thread based

[Framboise]

Variation: There are 1 types of people in the world, those who program in C, and those who don't.