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Re:LibPhenom, a high-performance C eventing framework from F... by fyolnish on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:54PM (#6397312)
Grand Central Dispatch is just the marketing name for libdispatch. The do use pthread work queues if available, which they are on OSX & BSD. On linux a thread pool is used
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Re:LibPhenom, a high-performance C eventing framework from F... by throwaway812 on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @10:22AM (#6399417)
Yes, so there's absolutely no reason to use it if you're primarily targeting Linux.
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