On Nov 30, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 11/30/11 5:04 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: >> On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:48 AM, Debdatta wrote: >>> >>> In my (limited) experience, involving mostly threading for >>> performance, sharing is the norm.( Take a look at .NET's task >>> parallel library, or intel's TBB.) >> >> So is complexity and the propensity for deadlocks ;-) > > In fact there's a bit of confusion somewhere; in fork-join parallelism (.NET > TPL, TBB) there is in fact very little sharing; individual threads work on > disjoint data sets, and the join operation simply establishes checkpoints.
I suppose I should have read up a bit on TBB first. I'd assumed it was more of a classic multithreading library. My mistake.
