There is work ongoing to complete C++17 support in libstdc++, this includes providing support for the C++17 parallel algorithms.
Marco Ippolito writes: > Hi, > > the good book "C++17 STL Cookbook" in chapter 9 "Parallelism and > Concurrency" describes some of the 69 algorithms that were extended to > accept execution policies in order to run parallel on multiple cores. And, > according to the provided examples, they all greatly simplify some aspects > of parallelization with the standard algorithms. > > I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with upgraded gcc version 7.2.0 (Ubuntu > 7.2.0-1ubuntu1~16.04) and the header file <execution> is not present. > > In the official gcc documentation: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/ > manual/status.html the support to <execution> is flagged as "no" in > the Table 1.5. C++ 2017 Implementation Status, > and it seems that it is even not foreseen to be included in the upgraded > gcc 8 version: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html > > So, the crucial question about these 69 extended algorithms in the header > file <execution> is: > are these extended algorithms going to be supported by the next releases of > gcc, as they are already supported by Visual Studio, and soon by clang ? > > Looking forward to your kind feedback about this extremely important aspect > of gcc. > Marco
