Developer: Apple open sources Mac OS X API

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Apple open sources Mac OS X API

Apple has open sourced libdispatch project, generally known as the Grand Central Dispatch

Monday, September 14, 2009

BANGALORE, INDIA: Apple Inc, recently announced that it has open sourced libdispatch project, generally known as the Grand Central Dispatch, an important technology running in Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) comprises new language features, runtime libraries, and system enhancements that provide systemic, comprehensive improvements to the support for concurrent code execution on multicore hardware in Mac OS X.

According to a blog post in the website of libdispatch project, The project consists of the user space implementation of the Grand Central Dispatch API as seen in Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard.
The open source project is intended to be a resource for developers interested in learning more about libdispatch on Mac OS X.

Contributions to this project will be continually evaluated for possible inclusion in future releases of Mac OS X, said the blog.

For more information on this project visit: http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/

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