Apple's Grand Central Dispatch Ported To FreeBSD 205
bonch writes "Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, which was recently open sourced, has been ported to FreeBSD and is planned to be included by default in FreeBSD 8.1. Also known as libdispatch, the API allows the use of function-based callbacks but will also support blocks if built using FreeBSD's clang compiler package. There's already discussion of modifying BSD's system tools to use the new technology." The port was originally unveiled last month at the 2009 Developer Summit in Cambridge. Slides from that presentation are available via the Dev Summit wiki.
Bad Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Always taking from the open source community, and never giving back!
No. Really? (Score:0, Funny)
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Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Richard Stallman does not cry into his beer. Microsoft cries into their beer. Richard Stallman cries into his freedom.
Thank goodness for the GPL (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks goodness for the GPL, or we might never have convinced Apple to release its code so that FreeBSD could use it!
Wait... what is that? Oh, nevermind then...
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Re:No. Really? (Score:3, Funny)
But apart from CUPS, LLVM/clang, Webkit, Darwin, launchd, patches for zfs, MacPorts, darwin streaming server, CalDav, iCal, the Calendar server, code for Ruby, code for X server and GCD, what has Apple ever done for us?
Re:No. Really? (Score:2, Funny)
From the professional coders at AT&T [wikipedia.org]?
(ducks...)