Comments | brad: Threads as a service!?

brad

Threads as a service!?

Mar 06, 2008 10:26

In Apple's SDK announcement slides, they list the following stack ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

loganb March 6 2008, 18:41:05 UTC

only 10 features per slide plz!

caladri March 6 2008, 18:42:23 UTC

Well, of course that's where the threading API would be, and now of course there are the concurrent operation widgets implement at that level, too :P

jwz March 6 2008, 18:54:03 UTC

Maybe by "threads" they meant "t-shirts".

aca March 6 2008, 20:48:26 UTC

I love you, man. :)

feignedapathy March 6 2008, 19:01:48 UTC

lol, there may be something to that. ;)

But, yeah, that's the threading API. Their abstraction layer isn't terrible. Unfortunately, iTunes is still carbon-based, so the threading library is a little... behind.

xlerb March 6 2008, 20:56:59 UTC

Not that that was entirely a serious question, but it was 1:1 onto Mach threads the last time I looked.

crucially March 7 2008, 23:41:07 UTC

Yeah, the posix api is all userland side interfacing with 1:1 mach threads. (I guess It could have changed, I haven't programmed 10.4 or 10.5)