Bug#434583: ITP: tbb -- Thread Building Blocks is a parallelism library for C++

[Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>

* Package name    : tbb
  Version         : 2.0~20070719
  Upstream Author : Intel Corporation
* URL             : http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/
* License         : GPL with runtime exception
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : Thread Building Blocks is a parallelism library for C++
 
TBB is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor
performance without having to be a threading expert. It represents a
higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details
and threading mechanism for performance and scalability.
.
For more information see http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/




The runtime exception is to the GPL license is,,
   As a special exception, you may use this file as part of a free
   software
   library without restriction.  Specifically, if other files
   instantiate
   templates or use macros or inline functions from this file, or you
   compile
   this file and link it with other files to produce an executable,
   this
   file does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be
   covered by
   the GNU General Public License.  This exception does not however
   invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be
   covered by
   the GNU General Public License.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash