Intel Threading Building Blocks is, in Intel's words, a C++ template-based runtime library that lets developers do the following:
- Specify parallelism in [applications] instead of low-level threading details
- Emphasize scalable parallel programming
- Take advantage of pre-built and tested parallel constructs
In short, Intel Threading Building Blocks is meant to help simplify and speed up development of multithreaded software that can take advantage of dual- and multi-core processors ...
Intel expects 70% of its processors to be multi-core by the end of the year, so the company is encoraging developers to optimize or re-write their software with multithreading in mind.
