From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:13:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60909031213k5209f296vb0a77ff858e45496@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0e8c7a229da95a64783d23f913e787b@quanstro.net>
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:
> > Apple's using it all over the place in Snow Leopard, in all their native
> > apps to write cleaner, less manual-lock code. At least, that's the claim
> > :-).
>
> could someone explain this to me? i'm just missing how
> naming a block of code could change its locking properties.
>
>
The explanation is in the manual I linked to earlier in this discussion. If
you want to see examples there's two I can think of available for download.
One is called DispatchLife the other is DispatchFractal.
I've looked at DispatchLife, and there's no explicit locking of state for
every cell being concurrently update in Conway's game of life.
Dave
> - erik
>
>
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2009-09-02 8:04 Anant Narayanan
2009-09-02 9:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-09-02 11:00 ` Philippe Anel
2009-09-02 11:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-09-03 9:52 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-02 11:40 ` Eris Discordia
2009-09-02 12:32 ` Uriel
2009-09-02 14:20 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-09-03 9:52 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 10:48 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-09-03 11:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-09-03 13:59 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 15:15 ` Uriel
2009-09-03 15:44 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 16:01 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 9:15 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-04 16:49 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 16:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 18:56 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 18:58 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 19:13 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2009-09-03 19:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 19:50 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 20:30 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-06 22:35 ` Uriel
2009-09-07 0:41 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 21:08 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 21:35 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 21:45 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 21:49 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 21:51 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 22:36 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 9:16 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-03 22:10 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-03 22:07 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-04 9:15 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-04 3:21 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-09-04 3:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 4:18 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 4:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 5:31 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 5:35 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 7:11 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 7:47 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 14:41 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 15:04 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 15:58 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 12:14 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 13:52 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 13:59 ` matt
2009-09-04 14:20 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 14:56 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-06 23:03 ` Uriel
2009-09-07 0:45 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-04 16:50 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 6:45 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 16:44 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 16:58 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-04 17:09 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 17:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 21:54 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-07 9:06 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-07 9:05 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-07 9:40 ` Uriel
2009-09-08 15:31 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-08 15:44 ` Uriel
2009-09-08 16:40 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-11 18:15 ` Iruata Souza
2009-09-11 18:46 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-11 20:36 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-11 21:28 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-14 16:07 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2009-09-12 11:08 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-09-13 19:03 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-17 1:54 ` Lawrence E. Bakst
2009-09-17 8:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-09-17 9:12 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-17 15:56 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-17 17:38 ` Jack Norton
2009-09-17 20:23 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-09-17 20:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 20:31 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-09-17 20:47 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-09-17 21:02 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 22:26 ` Steve Simon
2009-09-17 22:32 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-18 2:05 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-18 9:30 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-09-18 11:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 21:03 ` Uriel
2009-09-03 9:52 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-02 14:08 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2009-09-03 9:52 ` Greg Comeau
[not found] ` <C56117D7BD9A097270529AAE@192.168.1.2>
2009-09-02 15:07 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-02 15:26 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-02 15:45 ` David Leimbach
2009-09-03 15:32 ` Uriel
2009-09-03 15:49 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 15:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 16:20 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-03 16:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-04 1:05 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-04 1:30 ` Russ Cox
2009-09-04 1:32 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-03 21:54 ` James Tomaschke
2009-09-06 22:26 ` Uriel
2009-09-04 9:04 ` Greg Comeau
2009-09-02 15:20 ` Roman V Shaposhnik
2009-09-02 17:51 ` Bakul Shah
2009-09-04 1:35 drivers
2009-09-04 1:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-17 9:19 Andrew Simmons
2009-09-17 14:45 ` LiteStar numnums
2009-09-17 17:24 ` Daniel Lyons
2009-09-18 15:50 drivers
2009-09-18 15:56 ` erik quanstrom
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