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Re:Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia by gpderetta on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @07:10AM (#20513960)
While extremely elegant and minimalistic, I do not think cilk ever gained much traction. GCC has deprecated it and is removing it. I think that OpenMP was too entrenched in the language extension space (and has since grown at least the potential of cilk like functionality), while more portable libraries (TBB for example) covered everything else.

I think it has been highly influential though.

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Re:Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia by scott_s on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:32AM (#20515058)
Yes, Cilk has been enormously influential. I have personally cited it many times. But I always had the impression it was a little too early for its time, and was never picked up by the HPC community, hence my question.
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