Would You Like Some Syntactic Sugar With Your TBB?

We have begun implementation on a source-to-source transformer that greatly eases the burden of writing code that uses Intel Thread Building Blocks (TBB). TBB is a C++ library that provides a parallel programming interface that is at a higher level than raw threads. However, because it works within the bounds of standard C++, there is a lot of syntactic overhead involved with writing a TBB application. We take a step back and show that the interface could be made far nicer if one is willing to forgo this need, and allow an extra preprocessing step.