“ It's a good step for our community that finally standard acknowledges threads, but on the other hand it made me think about many issues about the way it will be introduced. I happen to believe, thread construct is rather intermediate; neither low level enough to play with nor high level enough. Conceptually, thread is too low level for average programmer and bears higher risks because everything must be explicit. I think it'd be better to build more effective, and practical, endeavors upon "implicit parallelism", that is, programmer doesn't know or care about threads, but "tasks" to be performed and mapping tasks to actual units of execution (that is, thread/process) must/could be done by the standard library. That's almost exactly what TBB did. OpenMP and MPI (serving different purposes) are still other alternatives and are mostly available, but not for all platforms. ”