Number of threads used by Intel TBB

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chris picture chris · Sep 24, 2010 · Viewed 16k times · Source

How does Intel TBB choose the number of threads to used for a parallel section?

Is there some kind of specification available?

Answer

Manny picture Manny · Oct 29, 2010

As of TBB Version 2.2 the task scheduler will be automatically initialized and on runtime take care of the numbers of threads to use, if you manually want to change that number, you can use one of the following methods:

When you create the scheduler, you can specify the number of threads as

tbb::task_scheduler_init init(nthread);

else you can use 

tbb::task_scheduler_init init(tbb::task_scheduler_init::automatic);

In this case, tbb scheduler creates as many threads as your CPU cores

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