bonch writes "Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, which was recently open sourced, has been ported to FreeBSD and is planned to be included by default in FreeBSD 8.1. Also known as libdispatch, the API allows the use of function-based callbacks but will also support blocks if built using FreeBSD's clang compiler package. There's already discussion of modifying BSD's system tools to use the new technology." The port was originally unveiled last month at the 2009 Developer Summit in Cambridge. Slides from that presentation are available via the Dev Summit wiki.<p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/10/16/1945255/Apples-Grand-Cent ral-Dispatch-Ported-To-FreeBSD?from=rss"><img src="http://bsd.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0 &sid=09/10/16/1945255"></a></p><p><a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/10/16/1945255/Apples-Grand-Cent ral-Dispatch-Ported-To-FreeBSD?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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