On Dec 5, 2012, at 2:05 AM, Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> wrote:

> 
> On 5 Dec 2012, at 04:41, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:
> 
>> NSOperationQueue uses KVO for dependency tracking and queue width
>> management. In 10.7, the implementation was apparently changed to thunk
>> all KVO ops onto the main thread; I'm guessing this fixed a bug by
>> serializing all state changes. It also slowed down enqueueing
>> operations onto our NSOperationQueue from a background thread by a
>> factor of ten or more. I have samples to prove it.
> 
> Wow, that's a big change! Are there are docs to back it up, or is this purely 
> empirical?
> 

Not that I've seen. The only evidence I have is a pile of samples.

--Kyle Sluder
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