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author | Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@compnerd.org> | Fri Feb 16 11:26:29 2018 -0800 |
committer | Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@compnerd.org> | Fri Feb 16 15:41:41 2018 -0800 |
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use reserved spelling for inline assembly Use the reserved spelling for `asm` as it is a non-standard compiler extension. Rather than trying to enumerate the user label prefix on the various targets, rely on the compiler. The GNU compilers define `__USER_LABEL_PREFIX__` to "_" as appropriate. In the case that you are using a non-GNU compiler, it is possible to specify the macro according to your target. This simplifies and unifies the code.
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD or libdispatch) provides comprehensive support for concurrent code execution on multicore hardware.
libdispatch is currently available on all Darwin platforms. This project aims to make a modern version of libdispatch available on all other Swift platforms. To do this, we will implement as much of the portable subset of the API as possible, using the existing open source C implementation.
libdispatch on Darwin is a combination of logic in the xnu
kernel alongside the user-space Library. The kernel has the most information available to balance workload across the entire system. As a first step, however, we believe it is useful to bring up the basic functionality of the library using user-space pthread primitives on Linux. Eventually, a Linux kernel module could be developed to support more informed thread scheduling.
A port of libdispatch to Linux has been completed. On Linux, since Swift 3, swift-corelibs-libdispatch has been included in all Swift releases and is used by other swift-corelibs projects.
Opportunities to contribute and on-going work include:
For detailed instructions on building and installing libdispatch, see INSTALL.md
For detailed instructions on testing libdispatch, see TESTING.md