Re: Parallel tasking library

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:18:07 +0100
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:13:36PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > It's just a case of looking for potential applications and see if
> > certain sections can be parallelized.
> 
> Yeah, but I'm a big fan of importing libraries when they are need -
> not "just in case somebody finds a use for it". They can well live in
> pkgsrc untill then.
> 
Sure, not really insisting on anything, just trying to find out if this
would be a useful thing to have.

> However, are Love and you talking about the same library? If so, that
> is a great usage and good enough reason for import, IMHO.
> 
> Martin

Not sure, someone suggested Apple GCD (Grand Central Dispatch),
which I've never heard of, so I don't know how easy it would be to port
to NetBSD.

I've written a portable tasking library in C, which takes pointers to
functions and then executes those functions is parallel. I doubt
Heimdal is aware of my library, so it probably has hooks for GCD.