Also 
Advanced Mac OSX Programming
(Big Nerd Ranch)
By Mark Dalrymple
Covers CFRunLoop NSThread and GCD but not as deeply. 

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> On 2013/10/04, at 13:03, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 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-

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