Eager Future2

Introduction

Eager Future2 is a Common Lisp library that provides composable concurrency primitives that unify parallel and lazy evaluation, are integrated with Common Lisp's condition system, and have automatic resource management.

Eager Future2 is the successor to Eager Future, which was a fork of PCall.

Download

The latest version of Eager Future2 is 0.2. Older versions can be downloaded from the release directory.

Source repository

Support and mailing list

Questions should be directed to the eager-future-devel mailing list.

Documentation

The README file included with the distribution contains the documentation and an API reference.

Further reading

• Guy Steele's ICFP2009 talk on parallel programming is an excellent guide to writing code suitable for parallel computation with futures.
• Marc Feeley's PhD dissertation is the most comprehensive resource on using and implementing futures.
• This Lambda the Ultimate discussion on C++ Futures provides a lot of background on the concept of future composition, the different evaluation strategies, and the design considerations that went into Eager Future2.
• The Eager Future2 thread pool implementation is based on the Leader/Follower pattern, which is somewhat more efficient than the Half-Sync/Half-Async multiplexing pattern employed in many thread pool and network server implementations.

Project members

Eager Future is maintained by Vladimir Sedach.

License

Eager Future2 is licensed under the terms of the LLGPLv3. Details are contained in the LICENSE file included with the distribution.