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+VDKQueue
+=======
+
+A modern, faster, better version of UKKQueue.
+
+<http://incident57.com/codekit>
+
+
+about
+-----
+
+VDKQueue is an Objective-C wrapper around kernel queues (kQueues).
+It allows you to watch a file or folder for changes and be notified when they occur.
+
+VDKQueue is a modern, streamlined and much faster version of UKKQueue, which was originally written in 2003 by Uli Kusterer.
+Objective-C has come a long way in the past nine years and UKKQueue was long in the tooth. VDKQueue is better in several ways:
+
+	-- The number of method calls is vastly reduced.
+	-- Grand Central Dispatch is used in place of Uli's "threadProxy" notifications (much faster)
+	-- Memory footprint is roughly halved, since VDKQueue creates less overhead
+	-- Fewer locks are taken, especially in loops (faster)
+	-- The @autoreleasepool construct is used in place of alloc/init-ing an NSAutoReleasePool (much faster)
+	-- The code is *much* cleaner and simpler!
+	-- There is only one .h and one .m file to include.
+	
+VDKQueue also fixes long-standing bugs in UKKQueue. For example: OS X limits the number of open file descriptors each process
+may have to about 3,000. If UKKQueue fails to open a new file descriptor because it has hit this limit, it will crash. VDKQueue will not.
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+performance
+-----------
+
+Adding 1,945 file paths to a UKKQueue instance took, on average, 80ms. 
+Adding those same files to a VDKQueue instance took, on average, 65ms.
+
+VDKQueue processes and pushes out notifications about file changes roughly 50-70% faster than UKKQueue.
+
+All tests conducted on a 2008 MacBook Pro 2.5Ghz with 4GB of RAM running OS 10.7.3 using Xcode and Instruments (time profiler).
+
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+
+
+requirements
+------------
+
+As published, VDKQueue requires that you use Xcode 4.2+ and link against the 10.7 framework (for the @autoreleasepool language feature).
+However, if you want to use VDKQueue on 10.6, you can simply replace the @autoreleasepool with an alloc/init-ed NSAutoReleasePool. If you do,
+VDKQueue will work just fine on 10.6+
+
+VDKQueue does not support garbage collection. If you use garbage collection, you are lazy. Shape up. (Also, GC is deprecated in OS 10.8.)
+VDKQueue does not currently use ARC (automatic reference counting), although it should be straightforward to convert if you wish.
+
+
+
+
+license
+-------
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 Bryan D K Jones.
+You are free to use, modify and redistribute this software subject to these conditions:
+      1) I am not liable for anything that happens to you if you use this software --- including if it becomes sentient and eats your grandmother.
+      2) You keep this notice in your derivative work.
+      3) You keep Uli Kusterer's original copyright notice as well (this notice appears at the bottom of the header file.)
+      4) You are awesome.
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