[RFC] libdispatch (aka Grand Central Dispatch) in base

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to bring up the discussion for topic..
>
> Importing libdispatch (aka Apple's Grand Central Dispatch) into base
> (contrib?).
>
> Specifically into HEAD then MFC'd only as far back as stable/10.
>
> Here's the reason why:
> http://devinteske.com/freebsd-installer-enhancements
>
> Summary:
> For the purpose of providing a concurrency model better than pthreads for
> the
> expressed desire to bring about concurrent data processing (applicable
> directly
> to distributions, packages, signing and more).
>
> Multiple people have confirmed with me with respect to the above blog
> article
> that the concurrency model would be most efficient with libdispatch.
>
> Since the tool mentioned in the blog is
> a. Compiling with clang
> b. Requires newest dialog(3) that is only in stable/10 or higher
>
> I'd say that it looks like a match made in heaven.
>
> But of course, there's that one hang-up... dispatch is not available in
> base yet.
>
> Is anyone working on getting dispatch into base?


FWIW, I say +1 to your proposition and +1 to your contribs. However I say
prove it works.
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-- 
Adam