# dougbinks/enkiTS

A permissively licensed C and C++ Task Scheduler for creating parallel programs. Requires C++11 support.

Repository: https://github.com/dougbinks/enkiTS
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/enkits
Language: C++
License: Zlib
License Family: permissive
Topics: c-plus-plus, thread, scheduling, multithreading, enkits, c, gamedev
Last push: 2026-08-06T20:34:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 59, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4212, "days_push": 27, "days_rel": 60, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2023, forks 176 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:06.572782+00:00)

## What it is
enkiTS is a permissively licensed (Zlib) C and C++ task scheduler for building parallel programs that exploit data and task-level parallelism on multicore CPUs. It is lightweight, requires only C++11, and offers both C++ and C APIs.

## Use cases
- parallelize workloads across multicore CPUs
- run task-based parallelism in a C++ game engine
- schedule dependent tasks with a lightweight C API
- implement data parallelism in performance-critical code
- add multithreading to cross-platform C/C++ applications

## When to choose
- you need a small, easy-to-integrate task scheduler with minimal dependencies
- you want both C and C++ APIs for parallel task execution
- you are developing games or real-time software that must scale across cores
- you need permissive licensing (Zlib) for commercial use

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured threading framework with async I/O or coroutines
- your project targets platforms without C++11 support
- you prefer higher-level parallelism abstractions like OpenMP or TBB with broad ecosystem support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: concurrency, scheduling
- domain: developer-tools, performance
- platform: cpp, c, windows, cross-platform
- tags: task-scheduler, multithreading, parallelism, gamedev, lightweight, game-development, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- dougbinks/enkiTS (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.572782+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:00:02.798245+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dougbinks/enkiTS (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.572782+00:00, sha b50aecf2c715)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.