Here’s an overview of Apple’s new concurrent programming framework, complete with programming examples.
This is taken from the Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard. It’s that page of the review and the next page.
Long story short – they added blocks to C and Objective-C. A single line of code can wrap any section of [...]
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Grand Central Dispatch
September 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
MacRuby 0.4
March 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby
There’s one problem with this. Ruby’s interpreter and run-time have always been slow and single-threaded. For many reasons, the baroque language itself included, it has been difficult to create a fast interpreter. This hasn’t stopped Ruby from being useful. The incredible Rails framework runs on top of Ruby and is scalable. But that effort showed [...]
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Android/iPhone Development Comparison
February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone
ArsTechnica has a very good (though high-level) look at developing for the Android phone. What interested me most was drawing comparisons.
Android
Google created their own implementation of Java (Dalvik). The only way to deploy an app on the phone is to code it in Java.
The Dalvik engine is slower then normal Java (it’s optimized [...]
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