[MacRuby-devel] Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby?

[Matt Aimonetti]

Rich,

 I believe (but I'm not sure) that Grand Central Dispatch as well as a Snow
Leopard are technologies under NDA and can't be discussed publicly on the
mailing list. I'm not in the know and can only speculate. My guess is that
MacRuby will eventually take advantage of GCD but I'm afraid, we will have
to wait for Sept. to know more about that.

- Matt

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:

> Grand Central Dispatch is Apple's proposed technology for making
> concurrent programming easier and safer.  It looks pretty cool,
> as far as I can tell from the somewhat fluffy discussion here:
>
>
> http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_TB_brief_20090608.pdf
>
> It's also pretty clear that any first-class development language
> on Mac OS X, going forward, will have to support this.  Ruby has
> all sorts of block-based goodness already and Laurent is busily
> implementing JIT for MacRuby, so I speculate that GCD may well be
> in MacRuby's future.
>
> Has anyone looked into this possibility, if only to the extent of
> sketching out what language extensions might be needed?
>
> -r
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