Also Advanced Mac OSX Programming (Big Nerd Ranch) By Mark Dalrymple Covers CFRunLoop NSThread and GCD but not as deeply.
Sent from my iPhone > 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- _______________________________________________ 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]
