This code was originally written between 2002 ~ 2004, more than 20 years ago.

## The core cpp template library is entirely in this single file: 
ProCon.h 

## Goal
The paper presents a generic, reusable C++ template library implementing the producer–consumer (PC) concurrency pattern.
  a. Producers generate tasks and push them into a queue
  b. Consumers pull tasks from the queue and process them later
  c. The two are decoupled via a task-delivery queue
This abstraction allows concurrent systems to be built independently of application logic and OS-specific threading details.

## There are couple use case examples, 
  1. a thread pooled httpserver
  2. some sort of matrix multiplication that shows threaded approach s efficient (i can't remember detail)
The examples show the flexible, extensible, and platform-agnostic concurrency framework that can be reused across a wide range of systems such as servers, pipelines, and multithreaded applications.

## Published Article
Luckily, I saved the original article published in www.ddj.com (Dr. Dobb's C/C++ Users Journal), 2004.
A C++ Producer-Consumer Concurrency Template Library.pdf
Find it in this repo, I think it explains everything, :-).


## Some original notes that I had, was originally on windows and linux, but should be ok on BSD, macos etc., as long as the cpp boost library can be found.

gcc-linux.mak is make file for linux
win32\ contains VC6.0 workspace files
lib\libboost_thread.lib is release build of Boost::Threads
lib\libboost_thread_d.lib is debug build of Boost::Threads

## Finally
The code has not been tested with the latest boost library. 
Take and make use of this code if you want. Good Luck!