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innagadadavida·Sep 21, 2019

Was available in FreeBSD back in 2009: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GCD Archived Linux port: https://github.com/nickhutchinson/libdispatch You can use this without blocks, but it is way more convenient with blocks.

In Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C

josefdlange·Feb 4, 2016

Well, the first port I find of GCD for linux, libdispatch, hasn't been updated since October, but it looks plausible for use. ANSI C doesn't employ the same kind of code block mentality that Objective-C offers, so the interface is probably a little different. https://github.com/nickhutchinson/libdispatch

In Ask HN: QTConcurrent or Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)?

jws·Nov 18, 2015

I've built systems with libdispatch and blocks. I found it much nicer than traditional C style non-blocking IO or typical pthreads, both of which I have also done. • You don't need to use blocks, there are function callback versions of the calls available, but blocks are nicer. • There are asynchronous IO routines, that covers most of your stalls. • Go probably stalls threads on page faults, as does libdispatch. You can read about the Linux port of libdispatch at https://github.com/nickhutchinson/libdispatch

In Go-style concurrency in C

threeseed·Apr 23, 2015

There are ports: Linux: https://github.com/nickhutchinson/libdispatch Windows: https://github.com/DrPizza/libdispatch

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