Threading Building Blocks |

Why Use TBB?

Why use it?

Threading Building Blocks (TBB) lets you easily write parallel C++ programs that take full advantage of multicore performance, that are portable and composable, and that have future-proof scalability.

What is it?

Widely used C++ template library for task parallelism

Primary features

Parallel algorithms and data structures
Scalable memory allocation and task scheduling

Reasons to use

Rich feature set for general purpose parallelism
C++; Windows*, Linux*, OS X* and other OSes

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Latest Posts

April 1, 2019: TBB 2019 U5 released

Files are available on the release page of the Github repository.

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March 11, 2019: TBB 2019 U4 released

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December 5, 2018: TBB 2019 U3 released

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The Maya* team has successfully used Intel's TBB technology to internally parallelize Maya for several releases. Now thanks to Intel, TBB lets Maya plug-in developers access the same advanced parallelism features that we've used at no additional charge.

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Gordon Bradley

Maya Performance Team Lead, Autodesk