concurrency-playground

Implement concurrency primitives from scratch

Simple threads

Thread pools

TODO list

Some more things I want to implement

• Basic threaded networking server
  • Ensure a fixed max number of threads
• Thread pools
  • Implement basic thread pool
  • Detect dead worker
• Check if underlaying datastructures are thread-safe
• Make tasks cancellable to handle slow clients
• Implement back pressure / throttling
• Work different promitives
  • Locks
  • Semaphores
  • Barriers
  • Cyclic Barriers
  • Condition objects
  • IVar / Future
  • MVar
  • TVar (STM)
  • Cancellation
• Implement different schedulers
  • FIFO
  • (Job) priority scheduling
  • (shortest) remaining time first
• High level abstractions
  • Promise
• Actors
• Actor Pool
• Channel