### DispatchLife ###

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DESCRIPTION:

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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BUILD REQUIREMENTS:

Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard

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RUNTIME REQUIREMENTS:

Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard

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PACKAGING LIST:

DispatchLife.c      - Simulation engine using GCD.

DispatchLifeGLView.h    - OpenGL view for visualization.

DispatchLifeGLView.m    - OpenGL view for visualization.

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CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS:

Version 1.2

- Updated to use current GCD source API.

Version 1.1

- Updated to use current GCD API.

- Added OpenGL view for visualization.

Version 1.0

- First version (WWDC 2008).

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