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Re: NSOperation and threadDictionary
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Re: NSOperation and threadDictionary


  • Subject: Re: NSOperation and threadDictionary
  • From: Julien Poissonnier <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:17:25 +0200

On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Rick Mann wrote:

> Does iOS (and Mac OS X) clean up thread-local storage upon the completion of an NSOperation? It seems dangerous to rely on every operation to clean up its own mess. It also seems that an NSOperation should be able to pretend that it owns the thread on which it's running, and not have to worry about whatever a previous operation running on that thread might've done to the TLS.
>
> I read the NSOperation and NSOperationQueue docs, as well as the docs for -[NSThread threadDictionary], but none of it mentions this topic.
>
> I can experiment to find out, but would like to know what others know about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>

I don't know what happens to the threadDictionary when an NSOperationQueue "recycles" a thread, but the Concurrency Programming Guide states that you should avoid per-thread storage and consider the thread owned by the NSOperationQueue, not the NSOperation:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/General/Conceptual/ConcurrencyProgrammingGuide/OperationObjects/OperationObjects.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008091-CH101-SW27

-Julien_______________________________________________

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