Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch (Apple Insider)
Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch (Apple Insider)
Posted Sep 12, 2009 18:56 UTC (Sat) by malor (guest, #2973)In reply to: Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch (Apple Insider) by muwlgr
Parent article: Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch (Apple Insider)
This isn't a comparison, but John Siracusa does a very good writeup on GCD and how it works in the middle of his Snow Leopard review.
GCD uses a new compiler feature called "blocks", which are described earlier in the review. This allows for some mighty complex functionality encapsulated into just a few simple, easily-understood lines of code.
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