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June 30, 2008
Can Apple Make Concurrency Fruitful for Developers?
Though there are as of yet no detailed explanations, Apple made grand claims on June 9, 2008 for its Mac OS X Snow Leopard, scheduled to ship in about a year. According to a press release, "Snow Leopard delivers unrivaled support for multi-core processors with a new technology code-namedGrand Central, making it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs." There has been some speculation that Grand Central may be a rival to TBB, or similar to Microsoft's Task Parallel Library for managed code. Though there are bound to be squabbles over the best implementation, it's clear that more entries into the fertile field of multi-threading tools bode well for the technology's future. Given the market evidence, it's getting harder and harder for developers to wait out concurrency from the safety of their serial programming bunkers...Posted by Alexandra Weber Morales on June 30, 2008 4:59 PM
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