On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm really used to using -performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: to make 
> something happen later. But I'd much rather use a block than a target/action. 
> I can't find any API for this, however. Am I missing something? What I want 
> is basically like
>        PerformBlockAfterDelay(^{ …code here…}, 5.0);
>
> It looks like I should just call dispatch_async, but I'm unsure which 
> dispatch queue to use. dispatch_get_main_queue only works for the main 
> thread. Can I use dispatch_get_current_queue? I'm unsure of what this does 
> when called on a background thread. The API docs say "If the call is made 
> from any other thread, this function returns the default concurrent queue" … 
> is that a queue associated with the thread's runloop, that's guaranteed to 
> execute tasks on that thread?

My understanding is that you should treat the thread pool owned by a
dispatch queue as private. That means you probably shouldn't be
running an NSRunLoop on a dispatch worker thread.

If you need a thread (including cases where you need to run a
runloop), spawn a thread.

--Kyle Sluder

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