Cilk

<p>Cilk, Cilk++, Cilk Plus and OpenCilk are <a href="/facts/General-purpose_programming_language/LyA5zR3M">general-purpose</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming languages</a> designed for <a href="/facts/Thread_(computer_science)/hh8WHyPd">multithreaded</a> <a href="/facts/Parallel_computing/nQzcpzQt">parallel computing</a>. They are based on the <a href="/facts/C_(programming_language)/Ky2No763">C</a> and <a href="/facts/C%252B%252B/Et0F2qn9">C++</a> programming languages, which they extend with constructs to express parallel loops and the <a href="/facts/Fork%25E2%2580%2593join_model/ezh8xNer">fork–join idiom</a>.
</p><p>Originally developed in the 1990s at the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT) in the group of <a href="/facts/Charles_E._Leiserson/6Uf19apB">Charles E. Leiserson</a>, Cilk was later commercialized as Cilk++ by a spinoff company, Cilk Arts. That company was subsequently acquired by <a href="/facts/Intel/SMF0gJJX">Intel</a>, which increased compatibility with existing C and C++ code, calling the result Cilk Plus. After Intel stopped supporting Cilk Plus in 2017, MIT is again developing  Cilk in the form of OpenCilk.
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Cilk