When writing a program, choosing an appropriate level of abstraction is important. Few programmers use assembly language anymore. Programming languages such as C and C++ have abstracted away the low-level details. Hardly anyone misses the old programming method.

Parallelism is no different. You can easily get caught up in writing code that is too low-level. Raw thread programming requires you to manage threads, which is time-consuming and error-prone.

Programming in Threading Building Blocks offers an opportunity to avoid thread management. This will result in code that is easier to create, easier to maintain, and more elegant. However, it does require thinking of algorithms in terms of what work can be divided and how data can be divided.