On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Teske, Devin <devin.te...@fisglobal.com>wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'd like to bring up the discussion for topic.. > > Importing libdispatch (aka Apple's Grand Central Dispatch) into base > (contrib?). > > Specifically into HEAD then MFC'd only as far back as stable/10. > > Here's the reason why: > http://devinteske.com/freebsd-installer-enhancements > > Summary: > For the purpose of providing a concurrency model better than pthreads for > the > expressed desire to bring about concurrent data processing (applicable > directly > to distributions, packages, signing and more). > > Multiple people have confirmed with me with respect to the above blog > article > that the concurrency model would be most efficient with libdispatch. > > Since the tool mentioned in the blog is > a. Compiling with clang > b. Requires newest dialog(3) that is only in stable/10 or higher > > I'd say that it looks like a match made in heaven. > > But of course, there's that one hang-up... dispatch is not available in > base yet. > > Is anyone working on getting dispatch into base? FWIW, I say +1 to your proposition and +1 to your contribs. However I say prove it works. , -- Adam _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
