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Intel Updates Concurrent Collections For C/C++
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2009-02-05
Intel is aiming to make the lives of C/C++ programmers a little simpler. The tech corporation has let loose a fresh version (Release 0.3.0) of its Concurrent Collections for C/C++, and several improvements have been thrown into the mix.
First, here's Intel's description of what we're dealing with at all. "Intel Concurrent Collections for C/C++ is a new language for describing parallel computations," according to the release notes. "It distinguishes the expression of the potential parallelism of the program from both the lower-level serial details of the algorithm, and the actual parallelism for a given target."
Nifty, right? Or at least, it's nice to see a huge company like Intel paying attention to these programming languages in any way whatsoever. So on to the matter of fresh upgrades.
Bernard Cole reports, "Among the new and updated features Release 0.3.0 includes are: steps that can now be specified with different priorities to improve performance; support for garbage collection by ref-counting to reduce memory usage." It looks like the reference manual has been updated and a "cannot execute the specified program" error has been addressed, as well.
Go ahead and give all of this a shot if it sounds useful. Then maybe you can make some suggestions in time for Release 0.4.0.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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