Drew's Rust bindings for libdispatch, a.k.a. GCD. This is an alternative to the dispatch crate.
This crate is part of the objr expanded universe universe which provide low-level, zero-cost Rust abstractions for Apple platform features that mimic code from first-party compilers. Distinctive features of this library include:
- Leverages blocksr technology for fast, low-overhead, static compile-time optimizations of dispatch calls.
- Exposes a rich set of datatypes for
dispatch_data, including managed, unmanaged, contiguous, and zero-copy-bridged flavors of data - Binds
dispatch_read/write, the defacto API for nonblocking IO on macOS.- Notably, the rest of the Rust ecosystem uses some cross-platform API to cover macOS, like
pollorkevent. These lack various features and optimizations of the preferred API. - In general, Apple implements the cross-platform APIs with about as much care as the developers using them to port cross-platform apps: not enough.
- Notably, the rest of the Rust ecosystem uses some cross-platform API to cover macOS, like
- Binds
QoS, which is the solution for task priority and responsive GUI apps on macOS
dispatchr covers large but incomplete portions of the libdispatch API.
- global queues, dispatch_sync
- qos
- popular portions of io:
dispatch_read,dispatch_write,dispatch_io_create_with_path - data
- semaphore
- source (timers only)