Re: Parallel tasking library

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

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:10:38 -0500
David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:48:21PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > Hi, would there be any benefit in having some form of parallel
> > tasking library (something like Intel TBB, but simpler and
> > developed in C) in NetBSD?
> 
> 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.