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Grand Central Dispatch

Grand Central Dispatch (GCD or libdispatch) is a technology developed by Apple Inc. to optimize application support for systems with multi-core processors and other symmetric multiprocessing systems. It is an implementation of task parallelism based on the thread pool pattern. The fundamental idea is to move the management of the thread pool out of the…

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Developer
Apple Inc.
License
Apache 2.0
Operating system
Mac OS X 10.6 (2009) and later, iOS 4.0 and later, watchOS, tvOS, FreeBSD
Original author
Dave Zarzycki
Type
System Utility
Written in
C

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related to External links · 5
Grand Central Dispatch → Blocks, GCD, GitHubGCD Reference, Mac Developer Library, Mac Developer LibraryThe Introducing
Developer · 1
Grand Central Dispatch → Apple Inc.
License · 1
Grand Central Dispatch → Apache 2.0
Operating system · 1
Grand Central Dispatch → Mac OS X 10.6 (2009) and later, iOS 4.0 and later, watchOS, tvOS, FreeBSD
Original author · 1
Grand Central Dispatch → Dave Zarzycki
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Grand Central Dispatch → System Utility
Website · 1
Grand Central Dispatch → https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-corelibs-libdispatch
Written in · 1
Grand Central Dispatch → C

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apple gcd libdispatch tasks dispatch grand central developer 10 library execute pool windows os freebsd blocks objects task code inc

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Grand Central DispatchDeveloperApple Inc.1.00infobox
Grand Central DispatchLicenseApache 2.01.00infobox
Grand Central DispatchOperating systemMac OS X 10.6 (2009) and later, iOS 4.0 and later, watchOS, tvOS, FreeBSD1.00infobox
Grand Central DispatchOriginal authorDave Zarzycki1.00infobox
Grand Central DispatchTypeSystem Utility1.00infobox
Grand Central DispatchWebsitehttps://github.com/swiftlang/swift-corelibs-libdispatch1.00infobox
Grand Central DispatchWritten inC1.00infobox
Grand Central Dispatchrelated to External linksGCD0.60section
Grand Central Dispatchrelated to External linksGitHubGCD Reference0.60section
Grand Central Dispatchrelated to External linksMac Developer LibraryThe Introducing0.60section
Grand Central Dispatchrelated to External linksBlocks0.60section
Grand Central Dispatchrelated to External linksMac Developer Library0.60section

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