svn commit: r264042 - in head: include lib/libc/gen lib/libc/include lib/libc/stdlib

[Bryan Drewery]

On 4/4/2014 7:41 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> On Apr 4, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> Respectfully, as a developer, why would I want to use libdispatch and
>> not libevent? Libevent looks far more portable.
> 
> Equally respectfully, if you’re comparing libevent and libdispatch at all, then you’re only getting about 10% of what libdispatch actually is.  The event handling piece is really just a small fraction of it.  For a really nice overview written by someone *not* from Apple, I recommend:  http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/12/
> 
> Libdispatch is also highly portable.  I don’t think there’s an OS flavor it *hasn’t* been ported to at this point.
> 
> - Jordan
> 

Ah, thanks!

The homepage doesn't explain well, and the link to GCD on apple.com is
broken.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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