Create Blog "Thread pools: the simplest concurrency platform"

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Create Blog "Thread pools: the simplest concurrency platform" #161

Open behoppe opened 2 years ago

behoppe commented 2 years ago

See https://web.archive.org/web/20081227233324/http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/bid/6270/Thread-Pools-The-Simplest-Concurrency-Platform

behoppe commented 2 years ago

This blog is a follow-up to "The folly of DIY multithreading" (which @ailop is now updating) and it starts a series about various flavors of concurrency platforms

Thread pools ("the simplest")
OpenMP
Intel's Threading Building Blocks
Message passing
Data-parallel languages
Cilk++

It discusses some practical pros and cons of thread pools.