Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) offers a rich and complete approach to expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. Threading Building Blocks is not just a threads-replacement library. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance.
Back in February, I introduced Ian Bicking's virtualenv script for creating isolated Python environments, complete with their own interpreter and site-packages directory. I've been using virtualenv for all of my projects since then, but keeping up with al