Figure 1 shows the ease of implementation when using Intel® Threading Building Blocks versus Windows* threads.

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Figure 1. Side-by-side comparison of equivalent Windows* thread functionality shows dramatically simpler implementation with Intel® Threading Building Blocks versus native threads.

For a comparison of ease of implementation of Intel® Threading Building Blocks versus POSIX* threads, click here.

parallel_for

parallel_reduce

parallel_scan

parallel_sort

parallel_while

pipeline

Assistant Classes to Use with Algorithms

blocked_range (for use with algorithms, containers, etc.)

blocked_range2d (for use with algorithms, containers, etc.)

Thread-Safe Containers

concurrent_hash_map

concurrent_queue

concurrent_vector

Synchronization Primitives

atomic

spin_mutex

spin_rw_mutex (reader-writer spin_mutex)

queuing_mutex

queuing_rw_mutex (reader-writer queuing_mutex)

mutex

Task Scheduler

Memory Allocation

scalable_allocator

cache_aligned_allocator

aligned_space

Timing

tick_count

The Intel Threading Building Blocks are cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X), support 32-bit and 64-bit applications as well as work with Intel, Microsoft, and GNU compilers.

This library is specifically designed to work in concert with other threading technologies, such as Win32*, POSIX*, and OpenMP* threads, providing a high degree of design and development flexibility. The templates implemented in Intel® Threading Building Blocks rely on generic programming in order to provide high-speed and flexible algorithms with very few implementation constraints.

Intel Threading Building Blocks adds to the functionality of Intel® Thread Checker, Intel® Thread Profiler, and the Intel® Compilers, to enable the rapid implementation of high-performance threads in applications.

Intel® Pentium® 4 processor

Intel® Xeon® processor

Intel Pentium D processor

64-bit Intel Xeon processor

Intel® Core™ Solo processor

Intel Core Duo processor

Intel Core 2 Duo processor

Intel® Itanium® 2 processor (Linux* systems only)

Non Intel processors compatible with the above processors

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Windows Server* 2003

Microsoft Windows Vista*

Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 3, 4 and 5
(when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with Intel Itanium processors, operating system Update 2 or higher is recommended)

Red Hat Fedora* Core 4, 5 and 6
(not with Intel Itanium processors)

Asianux* 2.0

Red Flag DC Server 5.0

Haansoft Linux* Server 2006

Miracle Linux v4.0

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 and 10

SGI Propack* 4.0 (with Intel Itanium processors only)

SGI Propack 5.0 (not with IA-32 architecture processors)

Mandriva/Mandrake Linux 10.1.06 (not with Intel Itanium processors)

Turbolinux GreatTurbo* Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (not with Intel Itanium processors)

Mac OS X 10.4.4 or higher

Microsoft Visual C++* 7.1 (Microsoft Visual Studio* .NET 2003, Windows systems only)

Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Windows systems only)

Intel® C++ Compiler 9.0 or higher (Windows and Linux systems)

Intel® C++ Compiler 9.1 or higher (Mac OS X systems)

For each supported Linux operating system, the standard gcc version provided with that operating system is supported, including: 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1

For each supported Mac OS X operating system, the standard gcc version provided with that operating system is supported, including: 4.0.1 (Xcode* tool suite 2.2.1 or higher)

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