DispatchLife
| Last Revision: | Version 1.2, 2009-05-29 Updated for new libdispatch APIs |
| Build Requirements: | Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard |
| Runtime Requirements: | Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard |
The classic game of Life showing use of dispatch queues as lightweight threads (each cell is a queue), and an example of how to avoid overloading a slow queue (OpenGL or curses screen updates) with many requests (cell updates) by using a timer to drive the screen updates and allowing the cells to update as fast as they can.
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