>From what I understand, OpenMP is still a niche technology, used
primarily
on massively parallel architectures, for subatomic particle simulations
and that sort of thing.  Interesting, yes.  But useful?  That's
debatable.

Also, the OpenMP specification relies heavily on preprocessing
directives
and other language features so its not like most conventional
technologies
for concurrent programming such as the traditional library API.

It's something of a paradigm shift.

Brad.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:54 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: OpenMP support?
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I know there is support for thread safety is stdcxx using the -pthread
> option but is there any way to use OpenMP for this instead of 
> pthreads?
> I looked through the source code but couldn't find any signs 
> of it so I
> assume the answer will be no. Is OpenMP not interesting or useful for
> this kind of thing?
> 
> -- Mark
> 

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