> On 20 Jun 2017, at 16:24, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> > wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2017, at 04:04, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerri...@icloud.com> wrote: >> > >> 2. some other thing repeatedly about every 0.1 second. > > Personally, I’d choose an API that directly supports repeating timers, so I’d > prefer NSTimer or CFRunLoopTimer over the other options, all else being > equal.
I have just tested dispatch_after() versus NSTimer and it turns out that you were right: NSTimer is the better choice. The dispatch_after version takes about 6 % more Cpu time, compared to the NSTimer version. Also the NSTimer version takes less code. Better on both counts. 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