# intel omp taskq

For Intel legacy tasking, specifies an environment for the while loop in which to queue the units of work specified by the enclosed `task` pragma.

## Syntax

#pragma intel omp taskq[clause[[,]clause]...]

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## Arguments

clause | Can be any of the following:
private (variable-list) | Creates a private, default-constructed version for each object in variable-list for the `taskq`. It also implies captureprivate on each enclosed task. The original object referenced by each variable has an indeterminate value upon entry to the construct, must not be modified within the dynamic extent of the construct, and has an indeterminate value upon exit from the construct.
firstprivate (variable-list) | Creates a private, copy-constructed version for each object in variable-list for the `taskq`. It also implies captureprivate on each enclosed task. The original object referenced by each variable must not be modified within the dynamic extent of the construct and has an indeterminate value upon exit from the construct.
lastprivate (variable-list) | Creates a private, default-constructed version for each object in variable-list for the `taskq`. It also implies captureprivate on each enclosed task. The original object referenced by each variable has an indeterminate value upon entry to the construct, must not be modified within the dynamic extent of the construct, and is copy-assigned the value of the object from the last enclosed task after that task completes execution.
reduction (operator : variable-list) | Performs a reduction operation with the given operator in enclosed task constructs for each object in variable-list. operator and variable-list are defined the same as in the OpenMP* Specifications.
ordered | Organizes ordered constructs in enclosed `task` constructs in original sequential execution order. The `taskq` pragma, to which the ordered is bound, must have an ordered clause present.
nowait | Removes the implied barrier at the end of the `taskq`. Threads may exit the `taskq` construct before completing all the `task` constructs queued within it.

## Description

The intel omp taskq pragma specifies the environment within which the enclosed units of work (tasks) are to be executed. From among all the threads that encounter a intel omp taskq pragma, one is chosen to execute it initially.

Conceptually, the intel omp taskq pragma causes an empty queue to be created by the chosen thread, and then the code inside the `taskq` block is executed as single-threaded. All the other threads wait for work to be queued on the conceptual queue.

The intel omp taskq pragma specifies a unit of work, potentially executed by a different thread. When a `task` pragma is encountered lexically within a `taskq` block, the code inside the `task` block is conceptually queued on the queue associated with the `taskq`. The conceptual queue is disbanded when all work queued on it finishes, and when the end of the `taskq` block is reached.

### Note

This pragma affects parallelization done using the Qopenmp (Windows*) or qopenmp (Linux* or macOS) option. Options that use OpenMP* are available for both Intel® and non-Intel microprocessors, but these options may perform additional optimizations on Intel® microprocessors than they perform on non-Intel microprocessors. The list of major, user-visible OpenMP* constructs and features that may perform differently on Intel® vs. non-Intel microprocessors includes: locks (internal and user visible), the SINGLE construct, barriers (explicit and implicit), parallel loop scheduling, reductions, memory allocation, and thread affinity and binding.

Parent topic: Intel-Specific Pragma Reference