From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1251905211.16936.3261.camel@work.SFBay.Sun.COM> References: <09650C1A-A4C8-4030-81D6-9AC8913970A2@kix.in> <3e1162e60909020807t3164e42fvee3b6e5e4671743b@mail.gmail.com> <1251905211.16936.3261.camel@work.SFBay.Sun.COM> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:45:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60909020845x5928252aw58aa0182c56c0bb6@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd754807f1e0604729a2664 Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5f0b5dc8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd754807f1e0604729a2664 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > 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. > > > --000e0cd754807f1e0604729a2664 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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 s= ounds interesting.
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> 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, perha= ps?

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/P= erformance/Reference/GCD_libdispatch_Ref/GCD_libdispatch_Ref.pdf
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Thanks,
Roman.



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