Re: Parallel tasking library

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 20:34:39 +0100
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:10:38PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > A few years ago I remember murmurs about Apple's Grand Central
> > Dispatch, which was imported into FreeBSD.  Does that do what you
> > are looking for? It would be nice to have that in NetBSD.
> 
> What would use it in base?
> 
> Martin

Libraries that do compression/decompression, encryption/decryption,
email/web servers in base. For example if C compiler could be modified
to execute functions in parallel when building a project (this is quite
different from parallel Make), then waiting time on SMP hardware would
be drastically cut down.

It's just a case of looking for potential applications and see if
certain sections can be parallelized.