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gpderettayesterday at 3:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

Then again, often

  #pragma omp for 
is a very low mental-overhead way to speed up code.

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MeetingsBrowseryesterday at 3:31 PM

Depends on the code.

OpenMP does nothing to prevent data races, and anything beyond simple for loops quickly becomes difficult to reason about.

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nurettinyesterday at 3:33 PM

Yes! gcc/omp in general solved a lot of the problems which are conveniently left out in the article.

The we have the anecdotal "They failed firefox layout in C++ twice then did it in Rust" < to this I sigh in chrome.

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