Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

/clr /openMp

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

2:34 PM

I've been working with C++/CLI and OpenMP lately. OpenMP is a multiprocessing facility for C++ and FORTRAN that is, as such things go, dead simple to use (this is one of those "power to shoot yourself in the foot" things). One line of code (#pragma omp parallel for) changed my CPU utilization from:

To:

Now that's what I'm talking about! Get those cores cooking!

 

Anyhow, OpenMP and C++/CLI are a sweet match: C++/CLI makes GUIs and strings and such .NET-easy and OpenMP unleashes the processors. Look for an upcoming article on DevX.

 

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