Re: Can I create a thread with a runloop and a dispatch queue?
Re: Can I create a thread with a runloop and a dispatch queue?
- Subject: Re: Can I create a thread with a runloop and a dispatch queue?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:17:50 -0700
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > They're fundamentally different ways of doing multiprocessing.
>
> So to use GCD I have to rip apart all of my code that uses
> threads/runloops at once and rewrite it? (As I’ve said, I don’t mind
> upgrading it bit by bit as I go; it’s the big-bang approach that scares
> me.)
Carbon, anyone?
>
> > You _could_ have all your async queues target a serial queue that then
> > enqueues a bunch of blocks on a specific thread, but why?
>
> I keep explaining this. So code that uses GCD APIs can coexist with code
> that uses runloops.
The "why" was a question of "Why go through all this effort to fight the
framework, when the old way functions perfectly well?"
What is adopting GCD going to get you if you aren't going to use GCD the
way it was intended?
--Kyle Sluder
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