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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This is an excellent summary of the differences between GCD and .NET's thread pool. I'm a .NET dev and I love the thread pool but I fully realize it's limitations when it comes to balancing tasks I submit to it with OS-wide task execution.
I do some OS X development for fun in my spare time and I'm looking forward to seeing what it's like. Just have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first.