Re: [tlug] Grand Central Dispatch

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Phillip Tribble wrote:
> http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_TB_brief_20090608.pdf
>
> This new Grand Central Dispatch looks interesting. Has Linux had
> something similar for awhile? Schedulers and Resource managers such as
> Torque and Taskmaster on Linux would not really count as the same thing
> as GCD. 
>   

This sounds like threads, fiber's[1][2] + glue?  In which case yes[3][4].

Edward

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_(computer_science)
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine
3. http://evanjones.ca/software/threading.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex