Stone Three Foundation Classes (S3FC) is a software library which
facilitates the rapid development of high-performance distributed
computing applications. It is implemented as a number of C++ classes
and functions that includes an efficient multi-threading framework
built on top of POSIX threads, numerous efficient and lightweight
queues, local (intraprocess) and network transports that provide
object replication, secure network communications via OpenSSL,
synchronization via mutexes, semaphores, or condition variables,
periodic notification, an extensible and modular marshaling
(serialization) system, a message passing system, an event dispatching
and handling framework, local and remote event logging, and much more.
