Dispatch_Compared

Last Revision:
Version 1.0, 2009-09-08
Compare overhead of various GCD alternative APIs
Build Requirements:
Mac OS X v10.6 or later
Runtime Requirements:
Mac OS X v10.6 or later

This sample code measures the performance of invoking and executing various parallel APIs, in comparison to serial equivalents: a simple for loop, GCD: dispatch_apply, GCD: serial queue, GCD: parallel queue, GCD: multiple queues, OpenMP, and POSIX threads.