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Chip leader improves performance of developer tool for parallel development by canceling and blocking.

To help developers produce software that is more powerful and efficient, Intel aims is to take full advantage of parallelism, which allows multiple compute threads to occur at the same time. After a year of being open source, Intel is now releasing Threading Building Blocks (TBB) 2.1, which expands the functionality and performance of the project. As processors becoming increasingly parallel with multicore CPUs, the need for software developers to create software that can fully benefit is critically important. "Since releasing Threading Building Blocks to the open source community, we've got a lot of community involvement and feedback," Phil De La Zerda director of business development at Intel software development products, told InternetNews.com. RELATED ARTICLES HP Open Sources Unix File System for Linux MySpace Opens Profile Portability API A Look at Google's Open Source Protocol Buffer Is Open Source Development Insecure? Open Source Users Unhappy With Paid Support Intel Open Sources Building-Block Tech For more stories on this topic: "One of the benefits of the adoption is that we were able to add a lot of new capabilities based on the feedback that they gave us," he said. One of the new capabilities is called tbb_thread, which permits the task scheduler to block tasks. By blocking tasks, developers can optimize processes. "Before TBB 2.1, the task scheduler was not able to permit blocking tasks,"... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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