Dave Dribin has written excellent blog posts about this - start here:

http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2009/05/05/concurrent_operations/

Jamie

On 24 Feb 2011, at 15:08, Matt DeFoor wrote:

> I have been doing research in preparing to switch from manual
> threading to the usage of NSOperation. Because my operations will be
> executing asynchronous APIs from the CoreServices framework, it
> appears that I'd be better off using concurrent operations. What is
> not clear to me is, if I provide a callback to an asynchronous API, on
> which thread is the callback called?
> 
> Also, does anyone have experience using NSOperation with asynchronous
> APIs that take a runloop and a runloop mode as parameters? From my
> research, it is not clear to me how one would pass the required
> runloop parameters in the concurrent operation's start: method.
> Perhaps it is as simple as using the main thread's runloop, but that
> doesn't seem right.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt
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