Hi Rich,
On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Rich Morin wrote:
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
Hey, i resemble that remark. :-P
If you're a Snow Leopard seed key holder, there's technical
documentation available behind the firewall.
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?
Yes, Laurent and I have talked about it. :-) There's a fair amount of
infrastructure need to make this work efficiently, so it may take a
while, but it is definitely on the roadmap.
-- Ernie P.
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