agocke

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   by agocke 17y ago

   Well I didn't really mean to suggest that it would be removed, mainly about what kind of performance hit I would take by using pthreads instead of Grand Central. In addition, how well will pthread programs and GC programs work together. Nor
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   by agocke 17y ago

   I'm not sure why this never gets said, but a degree in computer science helps. No, its not always required and a lot of people in unrelated fields have ended up going into software engineering, but we might was well be upfront and honest ab
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   by agocke 17y ago

   I wonder how this will affect the legacy methods of concurrency in OS X -- specifically POSIX threads. I know I wrote a number of C apps using POSIX threads that worked well in OS X and in Linux. While this is nice and interesting for Mac o
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   by agocke 17y ago

   Well, people who use a dedicated graphics card are a good start. For audio editing I used the express card slot for an external audio processing card.
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   by agocke 17y ago

   In fact, it looks worse. Previously, Apple had high end portable machines for the true power users among us. I've had two generations of Apple Intel laptops because I wanted an easy to maintain Unix system. This announcement makes me very d