First pre-release available

I’ve made the decision to make an pre-release version of Bikeshed over at Github, get it here.

Channels

This release includes the “channels” feature which builds on the ideas I had for priority queues.

Channels can be used to build a Bikeshed that supports priorities but it is a bit more general than that, it can also be used to create per thread ready-queues with work-stealing, or it can be used to tag tasks that should be run a particular thread.

I started working on a blog post about the internals of Bikeshed and the new channels feature but it is not ready yet.

Documentation

The header file has been updated with more information on how to use the API. There is also a bunch of test cases in the repo where you can see examples of usage.

Tests

The tests has been validated to cover 100% of the code in bikeshed.h so it should be reasonably safe to use. If you find a bug or think something needs changing, feel free to ping me on twitter @DanEngelbrecht or leave an issue on Github.

License

The code is released with the MIT license so feel free to do what you want with the code, no restrictions. I would appreciate some feedback if you find it useful though.

Thanks

Thanks to @JCash for his excellent jctest library.