There are books. Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OSX (Apress) By Kazuki Sakamoto and Tomohiko Furumoto
Actually not bad. Concurrent Programming in Mac OSX and ios (Oreilly) Vandad Nahavandipoor Not as thorough. Sent from my iPhone > On 2013/10/04, at 8:01, Mike Abdullah <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 3 Oct 2013, at 22:37, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Mike Abdullah <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> You can actually target a custom queue at any other queue you like, to >>> create a whole chain of them. Work submitted to such queues ends up >>> executing within the context of multiple queues at once. >> >> OK, this I did not know, despite (I thought) reading docs. Is this from a >> WWDC session or release note? Is there an actual book (hopefully from >> O’Reilly) covering GCD? (Apple’s docs are OK as far as they go, but like all >> hypertext they have the problem that you’re never entirely sure you’ve read >> everything.) > > I'm not aware of any books. The API in question is > dispatch_set_target_queue(). I first understood the concept from Mike Ash's > excellent series of articles: > http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-09-18-intro-to-grand-central-dispatch-part-iv-odds-and- _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
