Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's proposed technology for making concurrent programming easier and safer. It looks pretty cool, as far as I can tell from the somewhat fluffy discussion here:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_TB_brief_20090608.pdf It's also pretty clear that any first-class development language on Mac OS X, going forward, will have to support this. Ruby has all sorts of block-based goodness already and Laurent is busily implementing JIT for MacRuby, so I speculate that GCD may well be in MacRuby's future. Has anyone looked into this possibility, if only to the extent of sketching out what language extensions might be needed? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
