libstdc++ parallel mode: Who's using it? Is it safe? Any similar projects? [closed]

Question

the GNU implementation of the C++ Library supports a parallel mode, explained here.

• Any experiences in using it? Good ones? Bad ones? Especially regarding correctness, but also performance.
• Are there some "more or less serious" projects using it?
• Do you use it with the global turn-on-parallel switch -D_GLIBCXX_PARALLEL or do you use it carefully with manually turn-on specific parallelization functions like: __gnu_parallel::sort(v.begin(), v.end());?
• Are there any similar open source projects? Meaning: more easy parallelization than using openMP.

Thanks for your experiences.

Sascha

Answer 1

Too late answer, but:

I would seriously consider Intel TBB. One thing that I noted missing from C++ standard parallel mode is parallel containers. TBB containers do not follow the interface of C++ standard containers, but they provide justifications for this. Besides, TBB has a number of examples and design patterns.