Re: dispatch queues are objects now .. right?
Re: dispatch queues are objects now .. right?
- Subject: Re: dispatch queues are objects now .. right?
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:36:43 +0000
On 25 Nov 2012, at 13:38, Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that when I was watching the WWDC 2012 sessions, dispatch queues are now objects (since iOS6 and OS 10.7/10.8?) and as such I don't have to dispatch_retain() or release them and can just use them like any other object. But I can't find a reference in the documentation which supports that, that still says dispatch_queue_t is a struct.
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> I wandered around the header files a bit but they conflict with each other. The header file (queue.h) says they are reference counted via calls to dispatch_retain() .. but the OS_OBJECT_DECL() macro says something rather different, that they are objects and the trail goes cold there.
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> Am I correct in what I remember, are they now NSSObjects?
They are objective-C objects, which doesn't necessarily mean they inherit from NSObject. If you have a deployment target of 10.8 or iOS 6 then ARC is able to manage their lifecycle for you.
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