On 4 Dec 2012, at 18:31, "jonat...@mugginsoft.com" <jonat...@mugginsoft.com> wrote:
> > > On 4 Dec 2012, at 10:29, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > >> My app creates lots of MyOperations (subclass of NSOperation) and puts them >> into an NSOperationQueue. >> >> I would expect that the app thus remains responsive, but sometimes it is not. >> >> A sure way to beach-ball my app is: start it with a few hundred operations >> (which will take about 20 seconds to finish). >> Make some other app active. >> Try to make my app active again - it's panel stays grey and after a few >> seconds the cursor will turn into a beach-ball. >> >> These MyOperations interact with their controller in two ways: >> >> 1. they do once at start: [ controller dataStringFor: row ]; >> >> The controller has: >> >> - (NSString *) dataStringFor: (NSUInteger)row >> { >> @synchronized(self) >> { >> if ( self.stringArray == nil ) { create it - takes some time, >> but happens only once}; >> } >> return self.stringArray[row]; >> } >> > Does the app also access the controller object? The controller is also the app delegate. > You are locking the controller so the main app's performance may also be > affected if the controller is shared with the main thread. The code inside @synchronized is absolute minimal. I will be used every 50 milli-seconds. Cannot believe this blocks the controller. > > > In the absence of Instruments I would at least experiment with no oping the > @synchronized methods and try and exclude them as a problem source. Did comment out both @synchronized lines - same problem - no change at all. Kind regards, Gerriet. _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com