Bye Bye Cilk Plus: GCC Lightened By 82k L.O.C.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Bye Bye Cilk Plus: GCC Lightened By 82k L.O.C.

Earlier this month I reported on Intel's plans for removing Cilk Plus from GCC 8 since this parallel programming effort of theirs was depreciated in GCC 7 and hadn't seen much adoption. It's now official with the code being stripped out of the GCC 8 code-base...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Cilk-Plus-Stripped-In-GCC

[chuckula]

Cilk Plus was a good idea at the time but eventually OpenMP improved enough to basically provide all the same features that were originally in Cilk Plus. It's good to see it live on in OpenMP and it helps simplify the compiler.

[cen1]

Yeah, OpenMP is pretty nice. One of rare standards that didn't get bloated to oblivion and actually works as advertised and is simple to use for developers.

[MaelStorm]

*deprecated.

To depreciate is to lose monetary value. Deprecation is what is done to things that ate not to be used in new code anymore because the features will be removed from a future version of whatever it is a part of.

[Delgarde]

*deprecated.

To depreciate is to lose monetary value. Deprecation is what is done to things that ate not to be used in new code anymore because the features will be removed from a future version of whatever it is a part of.

Correct, though of course, code becomes deprecated because it's lost all of it's value....