Intel TBB will work on AMD processors?
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AMD multi-core programming
Is Intel TBB processor dependent? Will it work on amd or on ARM (under meeGo for example?)
Answer
TBB is not completely processor-independent; there is a (rather small) layer that isolates the rest of TBB from processor architecture (primarily to provide atomic read-modify-write operations such as compare-and-swap) and certain OS pecularities. Implementations of this layer use some compiler-specific stuff as well, such as inlined assembler or built-in functions (intrinsics).
TBB will work out-of-the-box on x86 (32 and 64 bit) processors including those from AMD, except for rather old ones that do not have mfence instruction.
As for ARM, there is no direct support, but TBB 3.0 Update 7 added an implementation of TBB's platform isolation layer that uses GCC atomic built-ins. So it is definitely possible to make TBB running on ARM, probably with rather small additional effort. And actually there was a report about certain success with such a port at the TBB forum.
And, Intel(R) AppUp SDK for MeeGo also contains TBB, though it's only for Intel's Atom processor.