By: Daniel Bourgeois

The STE||AR Group has implemented executors in HPX which, as proposed by the C++ standardization proposal called ‘Parallel Algorithms Need Executors’ (document number N4406), are objects that choose where and how a function call is completed. This is a step in the right direction for HPX and parallelism because executors give more flexibility on how and where task based work should be accomplished and gives the programmer a means to compose executors nicely with execution policies inside of algorithm implementations. Continue reading →