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brew install tbb v2023.0.0 Apache-2.0

C++ library for shared-memory parallel programming with task scheduling and thread-safe containers.

Why you might care

TBB abstracts low-level threading details, letting C++ developers write scalable parallel code without managing threads directly. It handles load balancing, cache optimization, and work-stealing scheduling automatically. Use it when building high-performance applications that need to exploit multi-core CPUs without OpenMP or manual pthread code.

Categories

library header-only-library parallel-computing

Alternatives

OpenMP Boost.Thread pthread OpenCilk
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90-day · #478
95.8k
365-day · #436

Runtime dependencies

hwloc

Build dependencies

cmake pkgconf python-setuptools python@3.14 swig

Links

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