By Paul Fischer
Introduction to Threading in IPP
There is no universal threading solution that works for every application. Fortunately the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (the Intel IPP library) are designed to be thread-safe. Applications that use the IPP library can implement threading at the low-level primitive level (i.e., within the IPP library using OpenMP), at the operating system level (e.g., native threads), or somewhere in between (e.g., Threading Building Blocks aka TBB).
For a quick summary of the differences between OpenMP, TBB, and native threads please read Intel® Threading Building Blocks, OpenMP, or native threads?
The IPP library is available as a standalone product or as a component in Intel® Parallel Studio, a threading development environment designed specifically to help you design and debug threaded applications on multi-core platforms.
