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.
> 


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