Michael Dolan Dot Com

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Intel opens up Thread Building Blocks (TBB)

One of the issues with multicore going mainstream is applications that can take advantage of multicore. While applications will run, developers will tend to see multicore max out at around 4-6 cores for their applications. Any more cores and performance will not scale as you’d like. With TBB, it will be somewhat easier for developers who can rely on tools to analyze where different parts of their code are worthy of a separate thread and let the tools do all the work for you in executing that code across multiple threads.

I heard the news over at O’Reilly – haven’t seen the official Intel announcement (yet), but this should be a great help for anyone trying to figure out just how to take advantage of quad+ cores.

http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2007/07/intel_releases_the_threading_b.html