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In the final three chapters, we discuss Grand Central Dispatch (GCD). This new feature is introduced for OS X Snow Leopard and iOS 4 or later to help multithreaded programming. I explain it with the implementation to see how multithreaded programming would be changed.

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Sakamoto, K., Furumoto, T. (2012). Grand Central Dispatch. In: Pro Multithreading and Memory Management for iOS and OS X. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4117-1_6

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