Re: [boost] Pondering Futures

Subject: Re: [boost] Pondering Futures
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-10 08:05:07

Anthony Williams wrote:

> My "grand" vision is that we will eventually have a C++ concurrency
> library that allows users to divide their code into
> potentially-parallelizable tasks and have the library manage the
> actual parallelization.

I've been waiting for that for a long time, but I don't know of any 
satisfying approach.

Even OpenMP, which is included in the compiler and is supposed to do 
that kind of thing, will always parallelize and won't even consider a 
hierarchy between nested potentially-parallelizable tasks.
I've even heard that nesting parallel tasks within other parallel tasks 
was ill-advised with OpenMP.