Apple open sources multicore code helper

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Sep 11, 2009 11:28 PM EDT
The Register; By Rik Myslewski
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In a surprise move, Apple has open-sourced its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) technology under the Apache 2.0 public license. Baked into the recently released Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, GCD eases the programming challenges that developers face when coding for multicore processors. You can download a PDF of Apple's half-marketing, half-technical description of it here.

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