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Re: Boost versus TBB

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:59:56 -0500, Linonut wrote:

> Just a quick opinion question.  Anybody use Boost and Intel's Thread
> Building Blocks?  Any key differences?  Have any preference?
> 
> Intel has open-sourced their commercial product under GPLv2 with a
> run-time exception (July of last year, it looks like).  This article
> talks about it:
> 
>    http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5894
> 
> Poor Roy gets dinged, though:
> 
>     Roy Schestowitz got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning:
> 
>      Nice publicity stunt, but everyone already knows that Intel
>      doesn't give a **** about open source (unless it means money)
>       ...
>      Doesn't Intel have another charitable not-for-profit
>      project to sabotage today? And trust me, I say this
>      because I know. Intel deserves this treatment because it
>      has earned it over time. Not to mention monopoly abuse
>      and many misuses that directly hurt rivals, destruction
>      of E-mails (court evidence), fake benchmarks... [more] 
> 
> Another dude compares TBB and OpenMP.

I've regained a slight amount of faith in you Linonut.
Very slight, but I believe you are now starting to return to your senses.
Not that you must agree with me, you don't.
Just return to the reasonable, normalcy your posting used to be.

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