9.10. Run-time library functions
In addition to the directives described in previous sections, OpenMP provides a set of run-time library functions. It includes run-time execution functions and lock functions. The run-time functions allow an application to specify the mode in which to run. An application developer may wish to maximize throughput performance of the system, rather than time to completion. In such cases, the developer may tell the system to dynamically set the number of processes used to execute parallel regions. This can have a dramatic effect on the throughput performance of a system with only a minimal impact on the time to completion for a program.
The run-time functions also allow a developer to specify when to enable nested ...
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