Re: [boost] Most needed/desired features in C++

From: boost (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-18 14:34:15

Salut,

On Monday 18 February 2002 10:16, Toon Knapen wrote:
> Peter Schmitteckert (boost) wrote:
> > What I would really like to have would be some basic language support for
> > parallel programming, like a parallel block in a loop, which allows the
> > compiler to generate code that evaulates the blocks independently, e.g.
> > on separate CPUs on a SMP machine.
>
> You can use OpenMP for that inside C++ applications.

today I took a short look at it.
The C++ _draft_ is from 1998 :(

>
> I'm not sure it would be a good idea to absorb this
>
> standard inside the C++ standard.

Definitly not in this form (using #pragma).

I'd prefer to have language support.

Best wishes,
Peter