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Cilk, OpenMP, or what?

For SMP programming at the C level, Cilk's model is sweet and clean. The OpenMP model is "industrial-strength", but complex and error-prone.

Anyone have experience with both? What, if anything, can be done (in parallel) in OpenMP but not in Cilk?

Cilk seems not to have have had much recent development (indeed, the link to the ICFP Programming contest they won is now dead). OpenMP on the other hand is now part of GCC. Is this a case of "doomed to success"?

Josh

By J Storrs Hall at 2007-07-09 00:15 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 8794 reads

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Cilk to be opensourced

http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/bid/7191/The-Case-for-a-New-Open-Source-License

By Ilya Mirman at Wed, 2008-11-12 15:51 | login or register to post comments