> > > One again, have you tried Cilk for exactly this kind of thing? I'd > be curious to know your opinion on how what you see in SL compares to > it. > > Nope, but it sounds interesting. > > Blocks themselves are really not terribly useful, you need the > > libdispatch library to make the real value in them come out, which > > does all the queue management by talking to the subsystem of Snow > > Leopard called "Grand Central Dispatch". > > Could you, please, send me a pointer to the API docs? Off list, perhaps? > http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Performance/Reference/GCD_libdispatch_Ref/GCD_libdispatch_Ref.pdf > > Thanks, > Roman. > > >