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Poll Result: More Developers Are Learning about TBB
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 31st 20084
The March Threading Building Blocks poll suggests that the developer community is learning about TBB, but not that many developers are actively applying TBB in actual projects. The poll asked: At what project level are you ...
Threading Building Blocks on Wikipedia
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 28th 20080
I just finished adding new information to the Threading Building Blocks entry on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threading_Building_Blocks ...
Threading Building Blocks and Linux Distributions, Part 2
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 26th 20080
In my last post I talked about the availability of Threading Building Blocks packages in ...
Threading Building Blocks and Linux Distributions, Part 1
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 24th 20080
Most of the people I've conversed with who are developing applications using Threading Building Blocks are working on Linux platforms. On the #tbb IRC channel, I've talked with people who are working with TBB on ...
Superlinearity and Algorithmic Complexity; or, My Interesting Conversation with Herb Sutter
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 19th 20085
In my recent "Superlinearity Is Impossible; We Just Don't Always Think Correctly" I argued that algorithmic processing superlinearity is impossible. It might appear that a ...
The Multicore Race Continues: Who, How, and Why
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 18th 20080
An article in this past Saturday's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) titled "Racing to Gain Edge On Multicore Chips" talks about an effort being jointly funded by Intel and ...
Superlinearity Is Impossible; We Just Don't Always Think Correctly
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 17th 20086
I just received the April 2008 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal (in my physical mailbox), and in this issue Herb Sutter continues his discussion of super linearity (where parallelizing a function produces a greater performance improvement than the ...
Threading Building Blocks Early March 2008 Development Releases
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 14th 20080
The Threading Building Blocks development team has moved to a weekly development release schedule recently: there have already been two early March releases following the February 26 release that I blogged about in my ...
Threading Building Blocks 20080226 Development Release
By Kevin FarnhamPosted Mars 13th 20083
The tbb20_20080226oss development release of Threading Building Blocks includes the following changes (as listed in the CHANGES file included with the ...

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