<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> <maintainer type="project"> <email>sci@gentoo.org</email> <name>Gentoo Science Project</name> </maintainer> <longdescription lang="en"> Cilk is a language for multithreaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style. Cilk provides an effective platform for programming dense and sparse numerical algorithms, such as matrix factorization and N-body simulations. Cilk is algorithmic, in that the runtime system employs a scheduler that allows the performance of programs to be estimated accurately based on abstract complexity measures. </longdescription> </pkgmetadata>