WWDC is still under NDA, I'm pretty sure no one's allowed to say anything here beyond whatever mentions have been made to the press.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Pierce T. Wetter III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a release the week before, plus we didn't have enough tickets since > WWDC was sold out, so I didn't go. Are there any details on Grand Central? > > Things I would like it to be: > > 1. An implementation of SEDA. That stands for > staged-event-driven-architecture. The basic idea is that you break things up > into different styles of work queues. The OS then dynamically allocates > threads to the work queues and figures out the optimum number of threads for > each queue. For instance, an I/O queue might be quite happy with a single > thread servicing it, because mostly they dump their data, then wait. A queue > of tasks that did actual computation could use as many threads as there are > cores. > > If you've ever used CoreNetwork you might get the idea, because > CFNetwork is event-driven, rather then the shitty thread-per-socket style > that CS students are taught. So you can easily handle a zillion connections > with CoreNetwork. > > This could probably be built as an extension to NSOperation, but > ideally, you'd want simple wrappers for all the I/O operations in > Foundation. > > 2. A better multi-core aware scheduler, like ULE from FreeBSD. > > 3. Something unimaginably cool. > > Pierce > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/david.t.wilson%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- - David T. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
