std.parallelism: Call for benchmarks

[bearophile]

dsimcha:

> Could anyone else please submit some 
> benchmarks, or at least some ideas for benchmarks that are simple enough 
> to serve as motivating examples, yet non-trivial enough to be worth 
> parallelizing?

The authors of Cilk/Cilk++ used to have a blog with many examples of parallel programs, like this one (this is not from the blog):
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/multicore-enabling-the-n-queens-problem-using-cilk/

But many of them probably need micro-parallelism.

A possible program is a parallel version of a little ray-tracer. It's very easy to parallelize it.

Bye,
bearophile