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concurrencykit/ck

Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking (including lock-free) data structures designed to aid in the research, design and implementation of high performance concurrent systems developed in C99+. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/concurrencykit/ck · homepage · C · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 97
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4521
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 23
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2690 stars · 334 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Concurrency Kit (ck) is a C99 library providing concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms (epoch-based and hazard pointers), and non-blocking/lock-free data structures. It includes architecture-specific assembly optimizations for many platforms with compiler built-in fallbacks.

Use cases

  • implement lock-free queues in C
  • safe memory reclamation for concurrent data structures
  • atomic operations and CAS primitives across architectures
  • build high-performance concurrent systems
  • concurrent bitmap and pointer array structures
  • research non-blocking algorithms

When to choose

  • writing performance-critical C/C++ concurrent code needing lock-free structures
  • you need battle-tested safe memory reclamation (epoch or hazard pointers)
  • targeting multiple architectures with specialized assembly support

When to avoid

  • you want a high-level threading API with locks and thread pools
  • working in a managed language with garbage collection
  • your project is not in C99+ or lacks a configure-based build

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency developer-tools performance developer-tools operating-systems windows bsd cpp c cross-platform lock-free memory-reclamation hazard-pointers epoch-based-reclamation atomic-operations c99 high-performance data-structures algorithms linux macos

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