Re: looking for a memory problem
Re: looking for a memory problem
- Subject: Re: looking for a memory problem
- From: Martin Hewitson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:33:40 +0200
On 17, Jul, 2012, at 05:26 PM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Could the problem be that I'm using the shared spell checker on multiple threads?
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> YES. At least it's a very big item on your list of problems. I haven't found any documentation that affirmatively says NSSpellChecker is thread-safe. Therefore it isn't. It's in AppKit, which counts against it, and it manages a UI facility, which excludes it.
Oh, that's not good. I wanted to be spell checking multiple files in the background. I will need to think carefully if there's a way to call -checkSpellingOfString:startingAt on the main thread.
Martin
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> Try executing your checks on the main thread. Communicating the results to the calling thread will require some care.
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> — F
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