Intel Threading Building Blocks

The January Threading Building Blocks poll asked developers to select the area where we'll see the most important software development technology advance in 2008. The 43 responses produced no clear consensus. Here is the actual poll statement and the ... [More] results: The most important software development technology advance in 2008 will involve: 32% (14 votes) - Scalable [...] [Less]

[Disclaimer: I'm sketching possibilities here.  There is no commitment from the TBB group to implement any of this.] Threading packages often have some notion of a thread id or thread local storage. The two are equivalent in the sense if given one, you can easily build the other. For example, thread local storage can be implemented [...]

Continuing my effort to create an application that has a Python GUI and a back-end C computation engine that is threaded using Threading Building Blocks, I followed the instructions in the "Boost.Python Build and Test HOWTO" about how to relocate my Boost.Python "quickstart" application, so I can modify it as I'd like. The relocation [...]

In my last post, I installed the Boost C libraries onto my Windows machine, and verified that the installation was successful. Now it's time to get Boost.Python operational, so I can get closer to my objective of creating a Threading Building Blocks application that is run using a Python user interface. The Boost installer created [...]

Several months ago, I began working on integrating Threading Building Blocks with scripting languages, such as Perl and Python. In the past week I've reexamined this problem from a new point of view: focusing on a single scripting language, rather than trying to come up with a single solution that will work for multiple [...]

There have been two Threading Building Blocks development releases since I created my TBB open source release versions matrix. In this post, I'm going to take a look at the first of these releases, the tbb20_20071218oss release. tbb20_20071218oss changes All TBB releases now come with a CHANGES file that is located in the top level directory [...]

I came across a very interesting blog post as I was perusing the Net last night. Bob Warfield, who writes the SmoothSpan Blog, which focuses primarily on SaaS and Web 2.0, posted a very interesting blog titled "Apple, MacWorld, User Experience, and the Multicore Crisis". Bob seems to agree with several points that I've repeatedly [...]

You may have noticed some recent changes and additions to the Threading Building Blocks site in the past month or so. But in case you haven't seen everything new, I'll point out some of the changes in this post. TBB open source documentation The TBB Documentation tab has a new look, and new documents. Originally, the [...]

The upcoming Money:Tech Conference (February 6-7, New York City) didn't attract my attention initially. The conference home page subtitles the conference "Where Web 2.0 Meets Wall Street" -- which implies something other than the type of problem we ... [More] try to solve using Threading Building Blocks. My view about the conference changed during my recent investigations [...] [Less]

In my last post I mentioned that Sadiq Jaffer had created Ubuntu Bug #181137, requesting syncing of the Debian TBB packages into Ubuntu Hardy Heron, which is scheduled to be released in late April. Despite the fact that the Hardy Heron Debian import freeze occured on December 13, the Ubuntu team has chosen to sync [...]