Re:Parallel programming is hard, film at 11. (Score 1)

I have to agree; yet parallel or (at least) multi-threaded algorithms haven't made it into standard libraries. An extreme example is the Standard C library qsort(3): There are multi-threaded versions of it available http://libmt.sourceforge.net/ but not included in the base libraries. And the glibc is imho a integral part of Linux. I don't know exactly about Windows, but I assume the standard sorting function to be a serial one, too.