You *can*, but there is a limit to the number of threads you can create, and even if you’re under the limit, you’ll likely be pegging the CPU in an inefficient way. You would be better served using GCD and creating a dispatch queue, then scheduling the task on that queue (or just using a global queue).
Jeff Kelley On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Eric E. Dolecki <edole...@gmail.com>wrote: > I haven't done much research, but if I have a method that does a lot of > looping, can I just safely bust this off (fire and forget)? > > [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(generateBigData) toTarget:self > withObject:nil]; > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
