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Pithikos/C-Thread-Pool

A minimal but powerful thread pool in ANSI C observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Pithikos/C-Thread-Pool · C · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

42/100

  • Activity 22
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5415
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 472
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2362 stars · 652 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A minimal but powerful thread pool implementation in ANSI C built on POSIX threads. It provides a simple API for initializing pools, dispatching work, waiting, pausing/resuming, and destroying pools.

Use cases

  • run tasks concurrently in a C program
  • parallelize work across worker threads
  • process a job queue with a fixed number of threads
  • pause and resume background workers
  • wait for all submitted jobs to finish before continuing

When to choose

  • you need a small, dependency-free thread pool in C
  • you want POSIX-compliant code that compiles anywhere with pthreads
  • you need fine control like pausing/resuming workers

When to avoid

  • you need a C++ thread pool with std::async or futures
  • you need work stealing or priority scheduling
  • your project targets platforms without POSIX threads

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency developer-tools cpp c thread-pool posix-threads ansi-c parallelism algorithms linux macos

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