Overview

lparallel is a library for parallel programming in Common Lisp, featuring

• a simple model of task submission with receiving queue
• constructs for expressing fine-grained parallelism
• asynchronous condition handling across thread boundaries
• parallel versions of map, reduce, sort, remove, and many others
• promises, futures, and delayed evaluation constructs
• computation trees for parallelizing interconnected tasks
• bounded and unbounded FIFO queues
• high and low priority tasks
• task killing by category
• integrated timeouts