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2.4 Work-sharing Constructs

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A work-sharing construct distributes the execution of the associated statement among the members of the team that encounter it. The work-sharing directives do not launch new threads, and there is no implied barrier on entry to a work-sharing construct.

The sequence of work-sharing constructs and barrier directives encountered must be the same for every thread in a team.

OpenMP defines the following work-sharing constructs, and these are described in the sections that follow:

  • for directive

  • sections directive

  • single directive