OpenMP & Perl & perl

Originally from a May 2021, Houston Perl Mongers Group meeting..

[https://houston.pm.org]

A short introduction to OpenMP is presented, along with two new CPAN
modules: OpenMP::Environment and Alien::OpenMP. The topic of sequential
consistency (and what it means to perl) will also be discussed.

OpenMP Presentation used:

* http://cscads.rice.edu/openmp-combined.pdf

C source forked at:

* https://gist.github.com/oodler577/556e3f15920ac747145f52e9153a6251

Examples require:

* Inline::C
* Alien::OpenMP
* OpenMP::Environment
* gcc that supports "-fopenmp" (should be any 'modern' gcc)

Additional examples,

* https://github.com/oodler577/p5-OpenMP-Environment/tree/master/examples
* https://github.com/oodler577/p5-OpenMP-Environment/tree/master/benchmarks
  - uses, https://www.nas.nasa.gov/publications/npb.html