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diff --git a/dev-lang/cilk/metadata.xml b/dev-lang/cilk/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c8b5e5c42150 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-lang/cilk/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?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> |