Intel open-sourced their TBB product today. 

Quoting the article:  "The aim of TBB, ..., is to make it easier for coders in C++ to express task-level parallelism"

Pfft.  Have these hacks never heard of D?  ;)  In any case, worth a look, to see if Tango can borrow anything...

 


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Cristian Vlasceanu

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:57:29

For the record: the technology that allows the debugger to execute code "backwards" belongs to Undo Software (http://undo-software.com/).

The conference ended today with a "geekathon", almost everybody had laptops and while some folks filled out the whiteboards with designs, others hacked away furiously.

I think that a solid agenda for the next development cycle emerged, covering language features and support libraries. Expect a boatload of cool stuff at "D Developers Conference 2008" :)

Cheers,
Cristian

 

Cristian Vlasceanu

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:04:53

Oops. Sorry, I meant to leave the previous comment under the D Programming Language conference post.

Regarding ITBB: I must say that I had the great privilege to chat with James Reinders, the author of the Intel Threading Building Blocks book (publisehd by O'Reilly) at the Ubuntu LIVE conference. I have also briefly looked at the book. I like what they have done. Abstracting out parallel concepts and shield developers from the POSIX threads is definitely a step in the right direction (D has nothing in this area -- yet)

I also like the Intel C/C Compiler. A lot.

Cristian

 



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