Parallel iterators
If you can see the big picture in these code examples, you'll have realized that most of the parallel work has a long loop, giving work to different threads. It happened with simple threads and it happens even more with scoped threads and thread pools. It's usually the case in real life, too. You might have a bunch of data to process, and you can probably separate that processing into chunks, iterate over them, and hand them over to various threads to do the work for you.
The main issue with that approach is that if you need to use multiple stages to process a given piece of data, you might end up with lots of boilerplate code that can make it difficult to maintain. Not only that, you might find yourself not using parallel ...
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