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by throwaway812 4666 days ago
The library may work, but Grand Central Dispatch, which is the whole point, is really an OS X thing. BSD may have adopted it, not sure. I'm pretty that confident Linux has not.
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Grand Central Dispatch is just the marketing name for libdispatch. The do use pthread work queues if available, which they are on OSX & BSD. On linux a thread pool is used
Yes, so there's absolutely no reason to use it if you're primarily targeting Linux.