GCC 5 Will Have Full Support For Intel's Cilk Plus

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Phoronix: GCC 5 Will Have Full Support For Intel's Cilk Plus

While GCC has had Cilk Plus multi-threading support since last year that made it into GCC 4.9, with the upcoming GCC 5 release will be full support for Intel's Cilk Plus specification...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc4NDY

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Cilk Plus aims for the same goal but OpenMP is not really that similar with Cilk.
The performance you get out of Cilk Plus is outstandingly better than what you can get with OpenMP. Almost perfect synchronization between cores...

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Cilk Plus aims for the same goal but OpenMP is not really that similar with Cilk.
The performance you get out of Cilk Plus is outstandingly better than what you can get with OpenMP. Almost perfect synchronization between cores...

So why are so many systems needed? OpenACC, OpenMP, Cilk+, OpenCL. They all work on CPU.