diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 4513760..4aa72a9 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@ pub mod drop_guard;
 pub mod ptr;
 #[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
 pub mod smallbox;
+pub mod util;
 
-pub const fn can_transmute<A, B>() -> bool {
-    use core::mem::{align_of, size_of};
-    // We can transmute `A` to `B` iff `A` and `B` have the same size and the
-    // alignment of `A` is greater than or equal to the alignment of `B`.
-    size_of::<A>() <= size_of::<B>() && align_of::<A>() >= align_of::<B>()
-}
+pub use util::can_transmute;
diff --git a/src/util.rs b/src/util.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bcfc2c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+use core::ops::{Deref, DerefMut};
+
+#[repr(transparent)]
+pub struct Send<T>(pub(self) T);
+
+unsafe impl<T> core::marker::Send for Send<T> {}
+
+impl<T> Deref for Send<T> {
+    type Target = T;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        &self.0
+    }
+}
+impl<T> DerefMut for Send<T> {
+    fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Target {
+        &mut self.0
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> Send<T> {
+    pub unsafe fn new(value: T) -> Self {
+        Self(value)
+    }
+}
+
+/// returns the number of available hardware threads, or 1 if it cannot be determined.
+#[cfg(feature = "std")]
+pub fn available_parallelism() -> usize {
+    std::thread::available_parallelism()
+        .map(|n| n.get())
+        .unwrap_or(1)
+}
+
+#[cfg(feature = "std")]
+pub fn unwrap_or_panic<T>(result: std::thread::Result<T>) -> T {
+    match result {
+        Ok(value) => value,
+        Err(payload) => std::panic::resume_unwind(payload),
+    }
+}
+
+pub const fn can_transmute<A, B>() -> bool {
+    use core::mem::{align_of, size_of};
+    // We can transmute `A` to `B` iff `A` and `B` have the same size and the
+    // alignment of `A` is greater than or equal to the alignment of `B`.
+    size_of::<A>() <= size_of::<B>() && align_of::<A>() >= align_of::<B>()
+}