An elegant POSIX compatible thread pool implementation in C
Features
- Simple and clean API
- ANSI C and POSIX compatible
- Small filesize, just two files, easy to add to your project
- Well documented and readable code, easy to understand and to modify
Usage
First of all, include threadpool.h in your project.
include "threadpool.h"
Then, create a threadpool with some number of threads.
threadpool_t *pool = threadpool_create(4);
Now you can add jobs to the threadpool.
threadpool_add_work(pool, some_job, args);
Finally, destroy the threadpool after you are done.
threadpool_destroy(pool);
Compilation
This project is not precompiled. You should add both threadpool.c and threadpool.h to your project and compile them with your project. Don't forget to add -pthread when you compile this project since it uses pthreads.
gcc -c threadpool.c -pthread
gcc myproject.o threadpool.o -o myproject
Contribute
If you like this project and find it useful, please help me make it better. Any contribution is welcomed and appreciated.