FoxMcCloud
Newcomer
I've been looking at Grand Central (through available whitepapers / documentation, I don't have a development Mac), and I'm either missing something fundamental, or it's the most overhyped piece of software in my recent memory. From what I gather, it's mainly:
1) Blocks
2) Task Queues / Completion Events
3) Dispatcher
The first is a very hackish attempt at closures (lambdas), and is underpowered compared to C++0x's lambdas (as seen in VS2010 Beta). The second is OS-wide thread pool (instead of per-app thread pool) management and notification events. The third is nothing special. Am I missing something here? I fail to see how this is revolutionary when compared to even a simple thread pool based task system, as used by gamedevs to tackle multicores..
1) Blocks
2) Task Queues / Completion Events
3) Dispatcher
The first is a very hackish attempt at closures (lambdas), and is underpowered compared to C++0x's lambdas (as seen in VS2010 Beta). The second is OS-wide thread pool (instead of per-app thread pool) management and notification events. The third is nothing special. Am I missing something here? I fail to see how this is revolutionary when compared to even a simple thread pool based task system, as used by gamedevs to tackle multicores..
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