Concurrent programming in Mac OS X and iOS / Vandad Nahavandipoor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nahavandipoor, Vandad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iOS (Electronic resource).

Mac OS.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Macintosh (Computer)--Programming.

Macintosh (Computer).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Now that multicore processors are coming to mobile devices, wouldn't it be great to take advantage of all those cores without having to manage threads? This concise book shows you how to use Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to simplify programming on multicore iOS devices and Mac OS X. Managing your application's resources on more than one core isn't easy, but it's vital. Apps that use only one core in a multicore environment will slow to a crawl. If you know how to program with Cocoa or Cocoa Touch, this guide will get you started with GCD right away, with many examples to h

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Audience; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Content Updates; June 3, 2011; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introducing Block Objects; Short Introduction to Block Objects; Constructing Block Objects and Their Syntax; Variables and Their Scope in Block Objects; Invoking Block Objects; Memory Management for Block Objects; Chapter 2. Programming Grand Central Dispatch; Short Introduction to Grand Central Dispatch; Different Types of Dispatch Queues; Dispatching Tasks to Grand Central Dispatch

Performing UI-Related TasksPerforming Non-UI-Related Tasks Synchronously; Performing Non-UI-Related Tasks Asynchronously; Performing Tasks After a Delay; Performing a Task at Most Once; Running a Group of Tasks Together; Constructing Your Own Dispatch Queues

Notes:

"Unleash multicore performance with Grand Central Dispatch".

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781306814256

1306814251

9781449310073

1449310079

9781449310240

1449310249

OCLC:

780425551