Editing Cilk (section)

===Cilk Arts and Cilk++===
Prior to {{circa|2006}}, the market for Cilk was restricted to high-performance computing. The emergence of multicore processors in mainstream computing meant that hundreds of millions of new parallel computers were being shipped every year. Cilk Arts was formed to capitalize on that opportunity: in 2006, Leiserson launched Cilk Arts to create and bring to market a modern version of Cilk that supports the commercial needs of an upcoming generation of programmers. The company closed a Series A venture financing round in October 2007, and its product, Cilk++ 1.0, shipped in December, 2008.

Cilk++ differs from Cilk in several ways: support for C++, support for loops, and [[#Reducers and hyperobjects|hyperobjects]]{{snd}} a new construct designed to solve data race problems created by parallel accesses to global variables. Cilk++ was [[proprietary software]]. Like its predecessor, it was implemented as a Cilk-to-C++ compiler. It supported the [[Microsoft Visual C++|Microsoft]] and GNU compilers.