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-# Tasks (OpenMP)
-**Tasks** are the OpenMP mechanism for irregular parallelism. `parallel for` only handles loops with a known iteration count.
-For work like recursive algorithms, tree traversals, and producer-consumer patterns, `#pragma omp task` packages a unit of work that any idle thread in the current team can pick up and execute. Tasks are created inside a `single` region so only one thread generates them while the rest execute them.
-```c
-#pragma omp parallel
-#pragma omp single
-{
-    for (node_t *n = head; n != NULL; n = n->next) {
-        #pragma omp task firstprivate(n)
-        process(n);
-    }
-}
-```
-`firstprivate(n)` gives each task its own copy of `n` at the time the task is created. Without it, all tasks would share the same pointer, which moves on as the loop advances. Use `#pragma omp taskwait` to block until all child tasks spawned in the current scope have finished. Tasks can be nested: a task can itself create more tasks, which is natural for recursive divide-and-conquer.