Getting Started

FastQueue is a production-ready, high-performance Job System & Thread Pool Library written in C (C99 and later) with full C++ compatibility.

Features

• Thread pool with work stealing
• Job scheduler with priority support
• Thread-safe MPMC queues
• Futures and promises
• Custom allocators
• Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, macOS)
• Zero external dependencies

Requirements

• C compiler with C99 or later support (GCC 4.8+, Clang 3.0+, MSVC 2015+)
• CMake 3.20+
• POSIX threads (Linux/macOS) or Win32 threads (Windows)

Quick Install

From source

git clone https://github.com/muhammad-fiaz/FastQueue.git
cd FastQueue
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build
cmake --install build

As a subdirectory

add_subdirectory(FastQueue)
target_link_libraries(your_target PRIVATE FastQueue::fastqueue)

With FetchContent

include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(
    FastQueue
    GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/muhammad-fiaz/FastQueue.git
    GIT_TAG main
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(FastQueue)
target_link_libraries(your_target PRIVATE FastQueue::fastqueue)

With xmake

xmake repo add fastqueue https://github.com/muhammad-fiaz/FastQueue
xmake require fastqueue

With Conan

[requires]
fastqueue/0.1.0

With vcpkg

vcpkg install fastqueue

Next Steps

• Quick Start - Write your first program
• Thread Pool - Learn about the thread pool
• API Reference - Full API docs