Cilk 2.0 Reference Manual

This document describes Cilk 2.0, an ANSI C-based language and runtime system for multithreaded programming. Cilk is designed for computations with dynamic, highly asynchronous, tree-like parallelism, which are typically difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style. Divide-and-conquer algorithms and backtracking search are examples of tree-like computations that are particularly well-suited to Cilk. 1.1 What is Included in Cilk 2.