At OSCON today, Intel announced a major upgrade to its Threading Building Blocks (TBB), a C++ template library available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. TBB is a developer tool that helps programmers implement threading into applications and improves application performance on multi-core processors. TBB 2.1 makes it easier for developers to apply TBB to new uses in their software, including GUIs, artificial intelligence, network input/output and more.

Among the enhancements are: