A Mandlebrot set fractal viewer
The original implementation is single threaded, naively rendering one pixel at a time. The draw time of a single frame is around 5000ms.
The current version parallelizes the process using a threadpool implemented in Threadpool.cpp. Each horizontal line of pixels is handled by a separate thread.
With threading, the draw time of a frame is around 925ms, indicating a 5.4x speedup over the single threaded version.
Depends on SDL2. Run brew install sdl2.
To install, run make and then the application can be started by running ./app.