I've used it for some small projects, with a nice speedup for large stl operations. I never encountered any problems (I used the global switch). However I didn't really do much benchmarking, you might want to refer to studies like http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/singler/mcstl/parallelmode_se.pdf and http://ls11-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/people/gutweng/AD08/VO11_parallel_mode_overview.pdf.