Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Sep 2009 14:15 UTC
One of the main new features in Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system has been released as open source. Apple has released the code of the userland portion of its Grand Central Dispatch technology under the Apache License, version 2. Mac OS X also has kernel support for Grand Central Dispatch, which is also released as open source via the XNU project. While we're at it, let's take this opportunity to look into exactly what Grand Central Dispatch is.
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2006-09-26
I had assumed this Grand Central was something magical that addressed a lot of the issues of parallel programming like concurrency and data sharing. After reading this, it sounds like it is .Net's (and I'm sure other languages) ThreadPool with a lot of Apple marketing.
How is this different/better/revolutionary from ThreadPool? Just that fact that its at the OS level instead of the runtime level?