Those of us who are working with fink on Snow Leopard in advance of
its release are not allowed to comment on the specifics of Snow
Leopard, but I can make some general comments based on publically-
available information.
Everything I've heard publically about Grand Central Dispatch
indicates that programmers will have to specifically include that
functionality in their code -- they will have to adopt Apple's new
threading model. This suggests that existing code (such as the code
for all packages currently in fink) won't immediately take advantage
of Grand Central Dispatch, but that GCD might, over time, have some
beneficial effects.
The other comment that I think it's safe to make is that fink is
working quite well on Snow Leopard already, and we hope to have a well-
functioning version of fink all ready to go when Snow Leopard is
released.
-- Dave
On Jun 12, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Payam Minoofar wrote:
Purely out of curiosity, are there any general impressions about
fink on Snow Leopard? Will fink (and the packages) benefit at all
from Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL? I assume that the latter
will have no effect, but the former should, theoretically, benefit
fink and its packages, right?
Will all this software port relatively easily over to Snow Leopard?
Payam
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