Re: receptionist pattern question: NSOperationQueue vs. GCD
Re: receptionist pattern question: NSOperationQueue vs. GCD
- Subject: Re: receptionist pattern question: NSOperationQueue vs. GCD
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:53:53 -0500
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:19:49 -0800, Matt Neuburg said:
>My question is simply this: in a world that has GCD, is there any reason
>why we wouldn't have "queue" be a GCD dispatch queue (probably the main
>queue) and call dispatch_asynch? Putting it even more generally (and
>this is probably my *real* question), is there any reason why I'd ever
>use NSOperationQueue's addOperationWithBlock given the existence of GCD?
NSOperationQueue is higher level, and Apple's always saying to use the highest level API available. Another minor reason: NSOperationQueue is available on 10.5, and GCD is not.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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