Markus, > "Possible" or "Allowed"? ;-) Both, I think. If I am not mistaken, it was some Apple guy (David Duncan?) who pointed out the role of the runloop. I therefore take for granted that, if it is not "allowed", it must at least be "tolerated".
> It is also possible to use Cocoa UI objects from different threads; at least > if you do it carefully, you might get away with that. However, I doubt this > is really allowed and if it stops working, Apple will say "We told you not > to...". Considering that the future of processing is more and more cores > (virtual or physical ones), it is pretty unfortunate that Cocoa is so little > thread-safe and that UI is still often bound to main thread. I think Apple is well aware of that. I'd bet this is one of their priorities for MacOS 10.7... Just a wild guess, though. Vincent Sent from my iPhone4 _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
