On 18, Jul, 2012, at 04:17 AM, Martin Wierschin <mar...@nisus.com> wrote:
>> So my potential solution for this is:
>>
>> NSSpellChecker *checker = [NSSpellChecker sharedSpellChecker];
>> __block NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0, 0);
>> while (range.location < [aString length]) {
>>
>> dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
>> range = [checker checkSpellingOfString:aString
>> startingAt:range.location];
>> });
>>
>> // update range
>> }
>>
>> Where this piece of code will run on multiple threads.
>>
>> Does this look like a reasonable approach to ensuring thread safety?
>
> In addition to the potential for deadlocking that Mike warned about, it's
> probably best to be paranoid about +sharedSpellChecker. Hopefully that method
> uses a thread-safe singleton allocation (eg: via dispatch_once), but you
> never know. I'd move that method call to the main thread too.
>
> However, by using this approach you're not really doing the spell checking
> work on a background thread. The work is going to be done synchronously on
> the main thread, blocking your GUI (and whatever else). Maybe you should
> investigate using -requestCheckingOfString:etc: instead.
Oh, this looks perfect. Don't know how I missed that API!
Thanks,
Martin
>
> ~Martin
>
>
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