Intel Threading Building Blocks open sourced
Intel has released Threading Building Blocks (TBB), their library for doing multithreaded programming with C++, under the GPL. If you’re stuck in C++ land but yearn for the power of all those shiny new cores (with 4 Core 2 Duo cores now within reach of anyone with a modest budget), this might be for you. As an added bonus, the documentation looks pretty impressive.
They’re also running a contest to promote TBB.