[gonewest]

That's a good answer. Here's one more example from the visual effects industry. This is for parallel evaluation of potentially complex dependency graphs in an interactive character engine.

http://www.multithreadingandvfx.org/course_notes/Paralleleva...

[vvanders]

We'd look at TBB at a previous gig for something similar. However we never ending up pursuing it for unrelated reasons.