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mr_dbr on Sept 11, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grand Central Dispatch Now Open to All

It would be nice if this was back-ported to Leopard (so you could use GCD without the application being Snow Leopard only), I wonder how difficult this would be..

jsz0 on Sept 11, 2009 | [–]

More than $29 worth of difficult. That's for sure.

antonovka on Sept 11, 2009 | | [–]

http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/ is probably the place to start.

pohl on Sept 11, 2009 | | [–]

Without special kernel support, you could probably, at the very least, get a thread pool that was local to the process. That might be worth it.

GeneralMaximus on Sept 12, 2009 | [–]

IIRC, you already have libraries for thread pools on Leopard. Core Foundation would be where I'd start looking.

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