Re: [Boost-users] [thread] comparison with Intel Threading BuildingBlocks

From: Ovanes Markarian (om_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-25 10:01:52

On Wed, July 25, 2007 15:54, Andrew Holden wrote:
> Toon Knapen wrote:
>> I just received (again) some doc on the Intel Threading
>> Building Blocks
>> (TBB) (http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/).
>>
>> I was wondering how the boost.thread developers/supporters
>> would compare TBB with boost.thread (btw: the book of James
>> Reinders on TBB mentions boost.thread) ?
>
> The two libraries are meant to solve different problems.  Boost.thread
> handles situations where the programmer wishes to explicitly manage
> threads, often giving each thread a distinct task to perform.  It would
> be useful for situations like worker threads in a GUI program. It is
> also useful I/O-bound threads, which would cause TBB to waste a
> processor core.
>
> TBB, on the other hand, is useful for situations in which you have a
> parallelizable task to perform, and you would rather not worry about
> threading details, like a parallel for loop.

Do you mean that TBB is more like a "future" which might be added to the upcoming tr2?

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With Kind Regards,

Ovanes Markarian