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<h5><a href="async.thread.html">thread</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.semaphore.html">semaphore & timedsem</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.mutex.html">mutex</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.rwlock.html">rwlock</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.trigger.html">trigger</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.msgqueue.html">msgqueue</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.jobqueue.html">jobqueue</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.message.html">message</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.utils.html">Atomic functions, utilities</a></h5>
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<h5><a href="async.examples.html">Examples</a></h5>
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<p>PTypes provides a minimal set of utility objects for creating complex multithreaded
and event-driven applications. In addition to <a href="async.thread.html">threads</a>
and inter-thread synchronization primitives <a href="async.semaphore.html">semaphore</a>,
<a href="async.mutex.html">mutex</a>, <a href="async.rwlock.html">rwlock</a> and
<a href="async.trigger.html">trigger</a> the library also allows you to create
message queues (<a href="async.msgqueue.html">msgqueue</a>) typically used in
windowed or other event-driven environments. The <a href="async.jobqueue.html">jobqueue</a>
class helps to build multithreaded server and robot applications with a pool of
reusable thread objects.</p>
<p>The implementation and interfaces of threads and synchronization objects vary
on platforms supported by the library. If an operating system lacks one of the
features, PTypes implements it using the other primitives present in that OS.
Please, see <a href="include/pasync.h.html"><pasync.h></a> for the implementation
cross-reference of the synchronization primitives.</p>
<p>These interfaces except the atomic functions are available only in multithreaded
versions of the library.</p>
<p>The multithreading classes are declared in <a href="include/pasync.h.html"><pasync.h></a>.</p>
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