parallel/fastflow 3.0.0 NetBSD

FastFlow: high-performance parallel patterns and building blocks in C++

FastFlow is a programming library implemented in modern C++ and targeting multi/many-cores (there exists an experimental version based on ZeroMQ targeting distributed systems). It offers both a set of high-level ready-to-use parallel patterns and a set of mechanisms and composable components (called building blocks) to support low-latency and high-throughput data-flow streaming networks.

FastFlow simplifies the development of parallel applications modelled as a structured directed graph of processing nodes. The graph of concurrent nodes is constructed by the assembly of sequential and parallel building blocks as well as higher-level easy-to-use components (i.e. parallel patterns) modelling typical schemas of parallel computations (e.g., pipeline, task-farm, parallel-for, etc.). FastFlow efficiency stems from the optimized implementation of the base communication and synchronization mechanisms and from its layered software design.