I have been working with sort example, attempting to use ISPC_USE_OMP for tasking and adding example for sort_paralle.cpp which uses __gnu_parallel::sort to compare apples with apples, but clang has no support for OpenMP. The reason to use ISPC_USE_OMP is to control thread-affinity on multi-socket systems. For bandwidth bound throughput, the tasking system based on pthread make it messy to control thread-affinity and w/o this for bandwidth bound work-loads performance may suffer.. I used sort example to begin with