Grand Central and OpenCL detailed?

Although very few details about Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard have been released, Roughly Drafted has supposedly uncovered some more tidbits and features.

As many of you may already know, one of the main features of the latest big cat is Grand Central. Grand Central is a thread management tool used to help developers when writing apps. The following is from the aforementioned Roughly Drafted article:

Snow Leopard’s Grand Central Dispatch does the same thing [as modern networking] for processes, packetizing tasks into Blocks and routing them to available processing cores as efficiently as possible. It can also manage the big picture for the whole system, adjusting how it balances its tasks as the performance load increases. This would be close to impossible for Individual developers to do themselves.

Also in the article were details about OpenCL. OpenCL will also help with multi-threaded architecture, along with GPU outsourcing in order to help realize the full potential of today’s high speed processors. OpenCL code will be kept as bytecode to enable JIT Compilation allowing graphics optimization.

Snow Leopard can be expected “within a year.”

Via [MacRumors]