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Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

Posted Sep 16, 2009 18:25 UTC (Wed) by ctwise (subscriber, #10952)
Parent article: Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

GCD doesn't require blocks - http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/gcd-is-not-blocks-blo...
are-not-gcd.html


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Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

Posted Sep 16, 2009 19:27 UTC (Wed) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

Your link is not working; here's what it should be: GCD doesn't require blocks.

Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

Posted Sep 19, 2009 17:48 UTC (Sat) by cma (subscriber, #49905) [Link]

Does GCD has something similar to syslets/threadlets ? http://lwn.net/Articles/221913/

Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

Posted Sep 24, 2009 13:27 UTC (Thu) by cowsandmilk (guest, #55475) [Link]

why doesn't he include an example where GCD doesn't use blocks, since noone seems to give one?
Showing an example where it uses blocks is silly.

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