poolio

A simple and safe and fast thread-pool based on pure message-passing concurrency defying the mainstream.

• simplicity:
  • small API
  • less than 300 lines of code
• safety:
  • no dependencies (apart from crossbeam)
  • thoroughly tested
  • memory-safety: no unsafe-code
  • thread-safety:
    • no data races
    • no deadlocks
• performance:
  • crossbeam-channels
  • as fast as the most popular Rust threadpool (see Benches)

For documumentation see Released API docs. In particular, you can find a design- and usage-description there.

Benches

The benches pit poolio against threadpool in a battle of computing various lists of primes and writing them to a sink. On a computer 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz' (6 cores and 12 CPUs) running x86_64 GNU/Linux we measured the following average times for executing the job:

This suggests that the poolio and threadpool are equally performant. The full result can be downloaded here. (The benchmarks are powered by criterion.)

Contributing

If you want to contribute: CONTRIBUTING.

Security

For security-related issues see: SECURITY.