Could Grand Central Dispatch (`libdispatch`) ever be available on Windows?

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Published on 2010-05-02T02:51:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 2:57 UTC
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I’m looking into multithreading, and GCD seems like a much better option than manually writing a solution using pthread.h and pthreads-win32. However, although it looks like libdispatch is either working on, or soon going to be working on, most newer POSIX-compatible systems… I have to ask, what about Windows? What are the chances of libdispatch being ported to Windows? What are the barriers preventing that from happening?

If it came down to it, what would I need to do to preform that portage?

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