Intel Threading Building Blocks

Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) is a popular software C++ template library that simplifies the development of software applications running in parallel (key to any multicore computer). Intel® TBB extends C++ for parallelism in an easy to use and efficient manner. It is designed to work with any C++ compiler thus simplifying development of applications for multi-core systems. Intel® TBB is a C++ template library that adds parallel programming for C++ programmers. It uses generic programming to be efficient. Threading Building Blocks includes algorithms, highly concurrent containers, locks and atomic operations, a task scheduler and a scalable memory allocator. These components in Intel® TBB can be used individually or all together to ease C++ development for multi-core. Intel® TBB provides an abstraction for parallelism that avoids the low level programming inherent in the direct use of threading packages such as p-threads or Windows threads. It has programmers express tasks instead of threads. Intel® TBB facilitates scalable performance in a way that works across a variety of machines for today, and readies programs for tomorrow. It detects the number of cores on the hardware platform and makes the necessary adjustments as more cores are added to allow software to adapt. Thus, Intel® TBB more effectively takes advantage of multi-core hardware.