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Cilk

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Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is designed for general-purpose parallel programming, but it is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style.
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  1. ilya // October 1, 2008 at 7:53 AM

    in fact, Cilk is being commercialized by the original team that developed it at MIT.

    new features include support for C++, MS Visual Studio as well as GCC, and support for loops (in addition to recursion).