On 14/02/2013, at 9:39 AM, François Chaplais wrote:

> The cocoa thing is the way to access advanced features like Grand Central 
> Dispatch (introduced in snow leopard) that allows an more effective use of 
> nowadays multicore processors by using queues instead of threads. This is of 
> tremendous help for CPU intensive tasks, like scientific computing, signal 
> processing, image processing, 3D imaging, etc... Not kid stuff, typically. 
> Optimizing open source computing code with these tools is a boost in 
> performance.

I use it in iOS externals so it's already feasible. I expect the extensions API 
will be an expansion of the iOS externals SDK. At least I hope so so I don't 
need to re-implement my externals again....

Cheers

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M E R Goulding 
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