Probably only moderately better, since at best you're saving spinning up a thread.
Most important is that NSURLConnection is cancellable, and has delegate methods you can implement for more control. On 12 Oct 2011, at 20:21, Martin Linklater wrote: > Thanks Mike, > > At the moment I'm using [NSData +dataWithContentsOfURL] running in its own > GCD dispatch queue. How much better performance should I expect to get using > NSURLConnection ? > > I'll need to weigh up the benefits before I go refactoring the server code. > > Cheers. > > On 7 Oct 2011, at 15:04, Mike Abdullah wrote: > >> >> On 7 Oct 2011, at 12:45, Martin Linklater wrote: >> >>> Hi - I'm writing an iOS client for an online retailer and I'm having >>> trouble with the way NSURL encodes square brackets. I'm building an http >>> request using a string then converting it to a NSURL before calling [NSData >>> dataWithContentsOfURL]. >> >> Aside from the URL problem you're having, do NOT use +dataWithContentsOfURL: >> for this. Use a proper NSURLConnection so you can run it asynchronously >> without having to fire up a thread. >> > _______________________________________________ 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
