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Cilk looks like a useful abstraction on top of threading libraries. It will be quite useful for people who already know how to write proper parallel code. Con
by mleonhard 18y ago
Cilk looks like a useful abstraction on top of threading libraries. It will be quite useful for people who already know how to write proper parallel code. Concurrency-challenged programmers will need a language that better protects them from race conditions. I think they'll need a strongly-typed language combined with something like Cilk.
- ibster 18y agoA new company has been spun out of MIT, with the goal of commercializing the Cilk technology. multicore programming blog: http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/ http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/