On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:19:49 -0800, Matt Neuburg said:

>My question is simply this: in a world that has GCD, is there any reason
>why we wouldn't have "queue" be a GCD dispatch queue (probably the main
>queue) and call dispatch_asynch? Putting it even more generally (and
>this is probably my *real* question), is there any reason why I'd ever
>use NSOperationQueue's addOperationWithBlock given the existence of GCD?

NSOperationQueue is higher level, and Apple's always saying to use the highest 
level API available.  Another minor reason: NSOperationQueue is available on 
10.5, and GCD is not.

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