Re:Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
by innagadadavida on Saturday September 21, 2019 @03:21AM
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Does anyone use Apple’s libdispatch (aka GCD) on Linux production code? It seems to be pretty fast and has some neat features. It also gives you blocks/closure support in C (needs Clang).
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Re:Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
by shakna on Saturday September 21, 2019 @06:46AM
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> It also gives you blocks/closure support in C (needs Clang).
You get block statements just with Clang don't you? No need for libdispatch?
And you can kinda get blocks with GCC as well using a similar construct. (For the love of all that is holy, don't actually use this macro).
#define lambda(ret_type, _body) ({ ret_type _ _body _; })
Re:Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
by Matthias247 on Saturday September 21, 2019 @10:26PM
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If you are open to C++ [boost] asio is pretty close and is cross platform. Running an io_service on a thread gives you something that resembles a dispatch_queue. And instead of blocks you can post C++ closures to the queues.
Re:Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
by Yoric on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:59AM
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Oh, libdispatch has been ported to other platforms?
That's great!
Re:Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
by innagadadavida on Saturday September 21, 2019 @10:45AM
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Was available in FreeBSD back in 2009: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD
Archived Linux port: https://github.com/nickhutchinson/libdispatch
You can use this without blocks, but it is way more convenient with blocks.