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FastFlow is a free Windows application designed for developers seeking to enhance the performance of their software through parallel programming. This tool facilitates the development of high-performance applications by providing a framework that simplifies the implementation of parallelism, allowing developers to focus on the logic of their applications rather than the complexities of threading and concurrency.

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The primary features of FastFlow include its lightweight architecture, which is optimized for speed and efficiency, and its support for various parallel programming models. Additionally, FastFlow offers a set of components that help in the design of scalable applications, making it suitable for both novice and experienced developers. With extensive documentation and examples, users can quickly adapt to and implement FastFlow in their projects.

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Release
Latest update
Version
1.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 10
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
Visual Studio 9 2008 or Visual Studio 10 2010, cmake
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Develop applications for multi-core platforms with lock-free parallel programming framework.
FastFlow is a C++ parallel programming framework aimed at simplifying the development of efficient applications for multi-core platforms. The key vision of FastFlow is that ease-of-development and runtime efficiency can both be achieved by raising the abstraction level of the design phase, thus providing developers with a suitable set of parallel programming patterns that can be efficiently compiled onto the target platforms. FastFlow is conceptually designed as a stack of layers that progressively abstract the shared memory parallelism at the level of cores up to the definition of useful programming constructs supporting structured parallel programming on cache-coherent shared memory multi- and many-core architectures. These architectures include commodity, homogeneous, multi-core systems such as Intel core, AMD K10, etc. FastFlow natively supports stream parallelism since it implements parallelism patterns as data-flow graphs - so-called streaming networks. The run-time support of the FastFlow framework provides an efficient implementation of Single-Producer-Single-Consumer (SPSC) FIFO queues. FastFlow SPSC queues are lock-free, wait-free, and do not use interlocked operations. The SPSC queue is primarily used as synchronization mechanism for memory pointers in a consumer-producer fashion. The next tier up extends one-to-one queues to many-to-many synchronizations and data flows, which are implemented using only SPSC queues and arbiter threads, thus providing lock-free arbitrary streaming networks that requires few or no memory barriers, and thus few cache invalidations. The upper layer, i.e. high-level programming, provides a programming framework based on parallel patterns. In particular, FastFlow provides FARM, FARM-WITH-FEEDBACK (i.e. D&C) and PIPELINE patterns, and supports their arbitrary nesting and composition. The FastFlow pattern set can be further extended by building new C++ templates.
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