Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it. Eric
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Jeff Kelley <slauncha...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/edolecki%40gmail.com > > This email sent to edole...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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
