Rust wrapper for Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD). GCD is an implementation of task parallelism that allows tasks to be submitted to queues where they are scheduled to execute. For more information, see Apple's [Grand Central Dispatch reference]( https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Performance/Reference/GCD_libdispatch_Ref/index.html). * Documentation: http://ssheldon.github.io/rust-objc/dispatch/ * Crate: https://crates.io/crates/dispatch # Serial Queues Serial queues execute tasks serially in FIFO order. The application's main queue is serial and can be accessed through the `Queue::main` function. ``` rust use dispatch::{Queue, QueueAttribute}; let queue = Queue::create("com.example.rust", QueueAttribute::Serial); queue.async(|| println!("Hello")); queue.async(|| println!("World")); ``` # Concurrent Queues Concurrent dispatch queues execute tasks concurrently. GCD provides global concurrent queues that can be accessed through the `Queue::global` function. `Queue` has two methods that can simplify processing data in parallel, `foreach` and `map`: ``` rust use dispatch::{Queue, QueuePriority}; let queue = Queue::global(QueuePriority::Default); let mut nums = vec![1, 2]; queue.foreach(&mut nums, |x| *x += 1); assert!(nums == [2, 3]); let nums = queue.map(nums, |x| x.to_string()); assert!(nums[0] == "2"); ```