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10-13-2009, 03:30 PM
http://www.osnews.com/story/22331/FreeBSD_Gets_Grand_Central_Dispatch_Port
Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's answer to the problem of parallel programming. With modern computers containing ever more processing cores, you'd think that operating systems and applications would run ever faster. However, this is not the case because in order to benefit from these multiple processing cores, code has to be executed in different threads.
If you want to read more about what GCD is try here-
http://www.osnews.com/story/22152/Apple_Releases_Grand_Central_Dispatch_as_Open_Sour ce
Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's answer to the problem of parallel programming. With modern computers containing ever more processing cores, you'd think that operating systems and applications would run ever faster. However, this is not the case because in order to benefit from these multiple processing cores, code has to be executed in different threads.
If you want to read more about what GCD is try here-
http://www.osnews.com/story/22152/Apple_Releases_Grand_Central_Dispatch_as_Open_Sour ce