Open source projects - Blocks and GCD

[Alex Blewitt]

A couple of interesting developments; libdispatch [1] has been open-
sourced under a permissive (Apache) license, further to the blocks
support in the CLang compiler runtime. For those not yet on 10.6, the
Plausible Blocks tool [3] adds a framework which can generate blocks.

Note that libdispatch can use, but is not dependent upon, blocks. It's
possible to have these based on functions too. The
dispatch_group_async variant takes a block, whereas
dispatch_group_async_f takes a function.

I hope we'll be able to add support for these shortly into
ObjectivEClipse.

Alex

[1] http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/
[2] http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/
[3] http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/
[4] http://developer.apple.com/mac/articles/cocoa/introblocksgcd.html