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What’s New in Intel® TBB 2.2

By Terry Wilmarth (Intel) (2 posts) on August 4, 2009 at 7:35 am

With Intel® Threading Building Blocks version 2.2, now available for download, come several new features and improvements. Here’s a quick summary of what to look forward to:

Improved performance

• Improved performance of the scalable memory allocator
• Significant redesign of the task scheduler for better performance and scalability
• Improved performance of the concurrent hash map
• Better performance of the affinity partitioner
• The auto partitioner is now the default partitioner for loop templates instead of the simple partitioner

Improved experience

• Intel® TBB 2.2 supports automatic initialization of the task scheduler (task_scheduler_init is now optional)
• New high-level interface task_group for writing tasks
• Default implementation of HashCompare simplifies usage of concurrent_hash_map
• Expanded support of lambda expressions makes it easier to read and maintain code when using a lambda-capable compiler such as the Intel® C++ Compiler 11.0 and its successors

New and improved parallel algorithms

• New algorithms parallel_invoke and parallel_for_each
• New serial unordered and thread bound filters in pipeline
• Simplified interface of parallel_for for common loops

New and improved data containers

• New classes enumerable_thread_specific and combinable to support cross-platform thread local storage and associated algorithms
• Unbounded non-blocking interface for concurrent_queue and new blocking concurrent_bounded_queue
• Improved interfaces and behavior guarantees for concurrent_vector

New in scalable memory allocator

• Improved support for memory requests bigger than 8K
• Intel® TBB 2.2 supports automatic replacement of the OS allocator with its scalable memory allocator (Microsoft Windows* and Linux* OS)

We plan to describe most of these changes in more detail over the next few weeks.

Categories: Parallel Programming, Software Engineering, Threading Building Blocks

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August 5, 2009 8:40 AM PDT Terry Wilmarth (Intel) Total Points: 345 Status Points: 295 Green Belt

Check out this handy guide for making the transition from Intel(R) TBB 2.1 to 2.2: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/05/transitioni..... -21-to-22/

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