Parallel Programming in Visual C++
Visual C++ provides the following technologies to help you create multi-threaded and parallel programs that take advantage of multiple cores and use the GPU for general purpose programming.
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Auto-Parallelization and Auto-Vectorization | Compiler optimizations that speed up code. |
Concurrency Runtime | Classes that simplify the writing of programs that use data parallelism or task parallelism. |
C++ AMP (C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism) | Classes that enable the use of modern graphics processors for general purpose programming. |
Multithreading Support for Older Code (Visual C++) | Older technologies that may be useful in older applications. For new apps, use the Concurrency Runtime or C++ AMP. |
OpenMP | The Microsoft implementation of the OpenMP API. |
C++ in Visual Studio | This section of the documentation contains information about most of the features of Visual C++. |