Re: Is anyone working on anything libdispatch related?

[David Chisnall]

Eric managed to compile libdispatch under Linux using the blocks support in 
libobjc2 and libkqueue (which emulates kqueue on top of timerfd / epoll and 
friends).

Libobjc2 itself will use libdispatch for background work if it's installed at 
compile time, but will fall back to its internal implementation of a simplified 
subset if not.

I don't think there are any plans on using libdispatch as a non-optional 
component in GNUstep.  There are some 10.6 APIs that are obviously designed to 
be implemented with libdispatch (the block-using iterators with the parallel 
flag, for example, clearly expect to be implemented by pushing all of the 
blocks off to a libdispatch concurrent queue), but we don't currently implement 
any of them.

There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm for an NSRunLoop cleanup, so I focussed 
on fun things instead.

David

On 12 Jan 2011, at 08:00, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:

> Hi, Are you guys working with libdispatch? I just asked since I saw DC
> & RFM's conversations in the archive. I am having my eyes on a GDK
> backend but first I need a way to unify gmainloop and our run loop so
> I wonder how certain we are on using libdispatch.
> Thanks!


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