Ah. In my original email I didn't explain *why* it is that "ideally I would like to make the copy on a thread other than the main thread". The algorithm is doing real-time video processing, and I very much want to avoid holding up anything in that code path by synchronizing with the main queue. Past experience has shown that that does lead to glitches I am keen to avoid. So, while I'm a big fan of such constructions, I'm deliberately trying to avoid that here.
Serializing access to MyParameters will work, it's just a shame that there isn't such a tidy way of achieving that... On 3 Sep 2013, at 14:18, Robert Vojta wrote: > Then this should be enough ... > > - (MyParameters *)copyParameters { > __block MyParameters *parameters; > dispatch_sync( dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ > parameters = [myObjectHoldingParameters.parameters copy]; > }); > return parameters; > } > > ... if all your parameters object properties are set on the main thread only. > _______________________________________________ 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