Does anyone know of any good websites on the upcoming "Grand Central" technology from Apple (in Snow Leopard) and how it compares to the Parallel Extensions (and the native parallel computing stuff) coming from Microsoft? ...
Apple introduced Grand Central Dispatch (a thread pool) in Snow Leopard, but haven't gone into why one should use it over OpenMP, which is cross-platform and also works on Leopard. They're both pretty easy to use and look similar in capability. So, any ideas? ...
Anybody have any thoughts on Grand Central Dispatch (which has now been open-sourced by Apple) and Cilk++? Comparisons/contrasts? Is Cilk more Windows-only? ...
I’m looking into multithreading, and GCD seems like a much better option than manually writing a solution using pthread.h and pthreads-win32. However, although it looks like libdispatch is either working on, or soon going to be working on, most newer POSIX-compatible systems… I have to ask, what about Windows? What are the chances of lib...