[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #335: Top-level RDoc for gcd.c

[Matt Aimonetti]

Thanks Ernie, I'll add your doc to the file.

- Matt

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On Sep 16, 2009, at 13:48, "MacRuby" <ruby-noreply at macosforge.org>  
wrote:

> #335: Top-level RDoc for gcd.c
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> +-----------------------------------
> Reporter:  ernest.prabhakar@…          |       Owner:  lsansonetti 
> @…
>     Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  new
> Priority:  blocker                     |   Milestone:  MacRuby 0.5
> Component:  MacRuby                     |    Keywords:  gcd
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> +-----------------------------------
> Here's some proposed language for:
>
> http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/ruby/MacRuby/trunk/gcd.c
> // TODO: Add a top-level rdoc for the module explaining what GCD
> // is good for (and pointing them to the dispatch(3) manpage).
> ==========
> Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) is a novel approach to multicore  
> computing
> that is built into Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard. In  
> particular, GCD
> shifts responsibility for managing threads and their execution from
> applications to the operating system. This allows programmers to  
> easily
> refactor their programs into small chunks of independent work, which  
> GCD
> then schedules onto per-process thread pools.  Because GCD knows the  
> load
> across the entire system, it ensures the resulting programs perform
> optimally on a wide range of hardware.
>
> GCD is built on a highly-efficient multicore engine accessed via a C  
> API
> providing four primary abstractions, which are wrapped in this MacRuby
> implementation:
>         ▪       block objects
>         ▪       dispatch queues
>         ▪       synchronization services
>         ▪       event sources
>
> For more information, see the dispatch(3) man page.
>
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> Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/335>
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