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Intel Threading Building Blocks
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Intel Threading Building Blocks

by James Reinders
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
332 pages
10h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Why Threading Building Blocks?

Intel Threading Building Blocks 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 mechanisms for performance and scalability.

This chapter introduces Intel Threading Building Blocks and how it stands out relative to other options for C++ programmers. Although Threading Building Blocks relies on templates and the C++ concept of generic programming, this book does not require any prior experience with these concepts or with threading.

Chapter 2 explains the challenges of parallelism and introduces key concepts that are important for using Threading Building Blocks. Together, these first two chapters set up the foundation of knowledge needed to make the best use of Threading Building Blocks.

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