Apple Core Rot: Introduction

Re:Apple Core Rot: Introduction by morty16 on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:59AM (#5134640)

>Deprecation with threat of removal of robust long-standing threading APIs with rewrite required.

What's he referring to here?

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Re:Apple Core Rot: Introduction by chrisdevereux on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @12:47PM (#5135223)

Probably talking about the old carbon threading apis, which were depracated along with the rest of carbon in 10.8. I'd be surprised if anyone has been using them since 2006.

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Re:Apple Core Rot: Introduction by X-Istence on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @11:21AM (#5134766)

I'd like to know as well, and I wasn't able to find it in any of the rest of his articles...

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Re:Apple Core Rot: Introduction by Ixiaus on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @11:03AM (#5134666)

Grand Central probably? They might be enforcing its use and deprecating other API's.

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Re:Apple Core Rot: Introduction by jevinskie on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @11:21AM (#5134770)

pthreads isn't going anywhere. Grand Central Dispatch uses it!

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