What do you want to contribute?

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Wed Feb 13 17:47:53 EST 2013


On 14/02/2013, at 9:39 AM, François Chaplais wrote:

> The cocoa thing is the way to access advanced features like Grand Central Dispatch (introduced in snow leopard) that allows an more effective use of nowadays multicore processors by using queues instead of threads. This is of tremendous help for CPU intensive tasks, like scientific computing, signal processing, image processing, 3D imaging, etc... Not kid stuff, typically. Optimizing open source computing code with these tools is a boost in performance.

I use it in iOS externals so it's already feasible. I expect the extensions API will be an expansion of the iOS externals SDK. At least I hope so so I don't need to re-implement my externals again....

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