Should I use OpenMP or parallel_for_ for a simple for loop ?

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asked 2015-01-12 02:26:20 -0600

sup
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OpenMP is simplier since I only need to add one line, what is the advantage of parallel_for ?

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answered 2015-01-12 06:38:46 -0600

AlexanderShishkov

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E.g. iOS doesn't support OpenMP. parallel_for_ supports different frameworks for parallelisation (TBB, GCD, Concurrency, ...) So you code for parallelisation can be more cross platform than OpenMP.

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thanks that makes sense

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