Re: Parallel tasking library

[Ty Sarna <ty%sarna.org@localhost>]

On Nov 3, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Sad Clouds wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:10:38 -0500
> David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> A few years ago I remember murmurs about Apple's Grand Central
>> Dispatch, which was imported into FreeBSD.  Does that do what you are
>> looking for? It would be nice to have that in NetBSD.
> 
> It's not very portable, i.e. I don't think you can use it with plain C
> compiler.

I don't think that's true at all. If you want to use the blocks language 
extension, obviously you need a compiler that supports that. But it works 
without as well (pass function + context pointer instead of a block).