Threading Building Blocks

The Threading Building Blocks ( Intel Threading Building Blocks or short TBB) is a technology developed by the semiconductor manufacturer Intel C programming library for efficient use of multicore processors. The library provides a set of data structures and algorithms that assist in the use of threads to prevent typical problems. TBB used template programming in the implementation.

Version 1.0 of TBB was released by Intel in August 2006. In September 2011, Version 4.0 was released. TBB 4.0 supports Microsoft Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (version 10.4.4 or later) and Linux.