Re: Grand Central Dispatch & Blocks in Apple's C

2009-09-01 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2009-09-01 10:07:42 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier said: OpenCL is Apple's baby, no wonder they're a little ahead in their implementation. Just be pacient, I'm sure others will appear soon. The specification is overseen by the Khronos group, Apple was a major contributor, and they had the origi

Re: Grand Central Dispatch & Blocks in Apple's C

2009-09-01 Thread Jeremie Pelletier
Michel Fortin Wrote: > > Plus, they have OpenCL. I've seen about a half dozen OpenCL examples > > specifically for non-Mac machines, but none bother to tell you how to > > actually GET an OpenCL implementation, or if they're even available. *sigh* > > OpenCL is Apple's baby, no wonder they're a

Grand Central Dispatch & Blocks in Apple's C

2009-09-01 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2009-09-01 08:15:39 -0400, Daniel Keep said: Oh sod blocks; the REAL awesome in that example is Grand Central Dispatch. For those who don't know, it's a parallelism framework that lets you farm off tasks to thread pools, with a few neat additions: 1) you can express dependencies and 2) the