On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Michael Clark <[email protected]>wrote:
> FYI - some interesting proposed additions to the C language from Apple... > > "Apple today made the source code of Grand Central Dispatch available under > an Apache open source license. One of the new technologies for concurrency > added to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Grand Central is Apple’s attempt to > help developers deal with the rise of multi-core. The open sourcing of Grand > Central comes as something of a surprise, because it is a core technology in > Snow Leopard, and could be seen to give Apple a competitive edge in the new > world of multi-core." ... > zomg. That's a very smart move! I had doubts whether GCD will gain widespread usage since it's only supported by Snow Leopard, but it might now. (GCD is not a C extension though, only the blocks, which is still a pretty interesting extension.) Cheers, -- Chris
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