Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 21:38:44 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] libdispatch (aka Grand Central Dispatch) in base Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2dp307%2BV8K67cM5=xV9ow=ZXCo91ev0V2fhQF4Pfj86g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E5440115-299B-4E7D-957C-F3A0ED4CCCA5@fisglobal.com> References: <E5440115-299B-4E7D-957C-F3A0ED4CCCA5@fisglobal.com>
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to bring up the discussion for topic.. > > Importing libdispatch (aka Apple's Grand Central Dispatch) into base > (contrib?). > > Specifically into HEAD then MFC'd only as far back as stable/10. > > Here's the reason why: > http://devinteske.com/freebsd-installer-enhancements > > Summary: > For the purpose of providing a concurrency model better than pthreads for > the > expressed desire to bring about concurrent data processing (applicable > directly > to distributions, packages, signing and more). > > Multiple people have confirmed with me with respect to the above blog > article > that the concurrency model would be most efficient with libdispatch. > > Since the tool mentioned in the blog is > a. Compiling with clang > b. Requires newest dialog(3) that is only in stable/10 or higher > > I'd say that it looks like a match made in heaven. > > But of course, there's that one hang-up... dispatch is not available in > base yet. > > Is anyone working on getting dispatch into base? FWIW, I say +1 to your proposition and +1 to your contribs. However I say prove it works. , -- Adam
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