Take a look at Cilk (a lightweight C first and C++ later dialect) that pretty much uses the same syntax you are using. Scheduling is done via workstealing. The

Take a look at Cilk (a lightweight C first and C++ later dialect) that pretty much uses the same syntax you are using. Scheduling is done via workstealing. The Cilk papers in particular are very very good. They discuss the programming model, the compilation strategy, the scheduling algorithms and more. edit: this one for example http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/cilk5.pdf http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/papers/cilk5.pdf