Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS

Now that multicore processors are coming to mobile devices, wouldn''t it be great to take advantage of all those cores without having to manage threads? This concise book shows you how to use Apple''s Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to simplify programming on multicore iOS devices and Mac OS X.

Managing your application’s resources on more than one core isn''t easy, but it''s vital. Apps that use only...