Intel Threading Building Blocks

Intuition

After reading this chapter, you should be able to explain Thinking Parallel in terms of decomposition, scaling, correctness, abstraction, and patterns.

Once you understand these five concepts, and you can juggle them in your head when considering a programming task, you are Thinking Parallel. You will be developing an intuition about parallelism that will serve you well. Already, programmers seek to develop a sense of when a problem should use a parser, call on a sort algorithm, involve a database, use object-oriented programming, and so on. We look for patterns, think about decomposition, understand abstractions, and anticipate what approaches will be easier to debug. Parallelism is no different in this respect.

Developing an intuition to Think Parallel requires nothing more than understanding this chapter and trying it on a few projects. Intel Threading Building Blocks helps with each type of thinking presented in the chapter. Combined with Think Parallel intuition, Threading Building Blocks simply helps with parallel programming.