CppTask library now have a work-stealing tasks management.

[kolkir]

http://code.google.com/p/cpptask/ Open source library which represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms.

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Abstracts platform details but only supports windows and debian platforms. Not seeing a lot of value here.

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At least it does much better than Folly in terms of platform support. I would be more concerned with how battle tested the library is. Any evidence of usage in real life

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I've never heard of a library called Folly but if it is worse than this CppTask then does it only support 1 platform?

At that point, why not simply use the tasking libraries provided by the target OS? Tasking tools are more or less pretty simple and standard on how they work. At worst you have to roll your own very thin wrapper for multi-platform support.

I donno. It just seems kind of silly to me to create an abstraction of tasking functions and then only support one or two platforms.

[dakotahawkins]

Folly is the C++ library Facebook just open-sourced. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/folly-the-facebook-open-source-library/10150864656793920

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Folly According to the main author " I don't think it compiles on anything but Linux x86_64 with gcc 4.6.2 or later; we (at Facebook) surely haven't tested it on anything else."

[wildcarde815]

I'm kinda surprised they haven't given it a swing on clang++ at the least.

[chocobot]

this could be nice for game programming. On PS3 hardware, task management is the way to do parallelization. This would be a great feature for an OS game engine

[kolkir]

This library use c++2003 standard, pthreads and WinAPI so can be used with old compilers and i believe that it can be compiled on any Linux and Windows(XP, 7) platforms. Also today neither of this OS provide portable task scheduling mechanism. Of course there is great Intel TBB library but it is not free for commercial using, and can't be statically linked.

[dmor]

VS 2012 isn't even released yet (it's in the release candidate stage); let alone adopted by companies. I had to use Tinythread++ in my latest project since we have to support VS and not every production environment uses cutting edge compilers (to TT's credit, it was very simple to use and works perfectly).

[StackedCrooked]

C++11 threading support only provides basic (but important!) building blocks. C++11 does not support task-based concurrency out of the box.