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.